"Civilization could not exist until there was written……" — Charlton Laird
"Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings."
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Charlton Laird
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12 Quotes by Charlton Laird
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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying…
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it.…
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Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed…
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The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true…
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write…
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from…
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass…
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Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at…
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something…
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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to…
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which…
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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They…
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
— Plato
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity.…
— Cyrus the Great
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Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily…
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his…
— Unknown Author
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The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to…
— Henri Lefebvre
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The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the…
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task…
— Martin Luther
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the…
— William Shakespeare
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