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Edward Sapir has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a…
— Steven Biko
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In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm…
— Margaret Cho
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
— Max Lerner
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign…
— Yao Ming
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to…
— Emma Goldman
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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it…
— Mark Twain
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We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still…
— Noam Chomsky
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Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on…
— Natalie Dormer
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really…
— David Hockney
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