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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10874)

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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. Mencken
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It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis
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Fashions are induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
Alexander John Ellis
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I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.
Lore Segal
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
Steven Pinker
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Angela Carter
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For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.
William Caxton
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Love lasteth long as the money endureth.
William Caxton
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
William Caxton
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I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
Stanley Kunitz
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The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.
Amos Oz
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney
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He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish Marched into their land To murder and to rafish For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
H. L. Mencken
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WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.
Noam Chomsky
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Haruki Murakami
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We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.
William F. Albright
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There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
William F. Albright
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Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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