"It is no secret that the fruits of……" — Edward Sapir
"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them."
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Edward Sapir
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37 Quotes by Edward Sapir
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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…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily…
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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…
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age…
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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…
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its…
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of…
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so,…
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great…
— Abigail Adams
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who…
— Saint Basil
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat…
— Victoria Beckham
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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