Leonard Bloomfield quotes
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“If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.”
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“The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.”
-- Leonard BloomfieldSource : Leonard Bloomfield (1994). “Language”, p.21, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
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“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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Source : "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.
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