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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation…
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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but…
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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
— Mark Twain
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The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
— Louis L'Amour
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Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's…
— John Calvin
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Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.
— Paris Reidhead
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