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“The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.”
Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.282, Walter de Gruyter
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“By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.”
Source : Thomas Starr King (1880). “Christianity and Humanity ...: Ed., with a Memoir”
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“We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.”
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“Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.”
Source : FaceBook post by Daniele Bolelli from Aug 12, 2014 
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“I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later. They can go through the history and see a trail. It's straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I'm not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.”
Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
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“Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.”
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“You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.”
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“We're more of a touring band than we are anything else, because it kind of all makes sense when we're on the stage. For us, success in America would be having as many people come to see us as they do in the UK and Europe, and I think anything that would surpass that would just be a surprise to us.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.”
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“A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.”
