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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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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…
— Ivan Illich
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,…
— Thomas Kuhn
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The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
— Robert Morley
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Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains…
— Corey Taylor
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Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes,…
— Ella Maillart
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The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do…
— Manuel Neuer
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Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a…
— George Carlin
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We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor…
— Ahad Ha'am
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
— Thomas Szasz
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For digital natives, public schools are jails
— Bing Gordon
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people…
— James Cook
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