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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
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Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the…
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative…
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness…
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural…
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they…
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or…
— William Blake
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
— Edmund Burke
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation…
— Albert Einstein
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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
— Swami Paramananda
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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
— Mary Astell
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
— Khalil Gibran
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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…
— Ray Lankester
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or…
— James Madison
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When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
— Karl Marx
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he…
— Gautama Buddha
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