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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but…
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can…
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Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and…
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The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures…
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,…
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies…
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to…
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Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only…
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
— Leo Buscaglia
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness…
— Oscar Wilde
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When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The…
— Marie Curie
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We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level…
— Werner Erhard
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes…
— Sigmund Freud
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But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly…
— Yaron Brook
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
— Carlo Goldoni
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