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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests…
— Leonard Cohen
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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…
— Edward Sapir
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Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change…
— Thom Mayne
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I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
— Lorna Luft
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If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
— Jane Addams
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
— August Kleinzahler
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There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached…
— Annabelle Selldorf
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The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human…
— Karl Kraus
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never…
— Stevie Smith
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something…
— Judith Martin
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A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not…
— Michel Foucault
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