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All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and…
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the…
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality,…
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is…
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that…
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Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man…
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal…
— Lin Yutang
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,…
— Roman Jakobson
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
— Thomas Edward Brown
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In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all…
— Eliza Coupe
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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of…
— Brendan Gleeson
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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in…
— Roman Jakobson
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