"Man can be defined, if one wishes, as…" — Charlton Laird
"Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal."
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Charlton Laird
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12 Quotes by Charlton Laird
Charlton Laird has 12 quotes on this site.
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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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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations…
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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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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
— Scott Adams
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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