"Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language……" — Sarah Churchwell
"Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking."
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10 Quotes by Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell has 10 quotes on this site.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have…
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party:…
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not…
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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of…
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline…
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps…
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration,…
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More Crude Quotes
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one of 189 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
— Lionel Blue
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
— Georg Buchner
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Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in…
— James Buchan
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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil…
— James Buchan
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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
— George Bernard Shaw
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way…
— George Wald
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the…
— C.S. Lewis
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ...…
— Jacob Bronowski
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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