"The modern mind tends to be more and……" — Edward Sapir
"The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science."
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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 whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon…
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The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and…
— Lewis Mumford
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it…
— Ada Lovelace
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Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its…
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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime
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In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the…
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I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the…
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and…
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