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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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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
— Michael N. Castle
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The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
— Donna J. Haraway
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Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.…
— Mary Douglas
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True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated…
— R. D. Laing
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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back…
— Donald E. Westlake
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an…
— Wilhelm Reich
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
— Edward Sapir
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies…
— Amy Tan
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To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking…
— Rajneesh
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It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you…
— John O'Donohue
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