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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…
• We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
• Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
• What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
• Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
• A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the…
• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative…
• A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
• As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness…
• Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural…
• 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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