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Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and…
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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
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The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and…
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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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,…
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot…
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however:…
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It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.
— Theodor Billroth
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have…
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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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A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden…
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid…
— Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.
— Dharma Mittra
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
— John Moody
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