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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10874)

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It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.
Noam Chomsky
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When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
H. L. Mencken
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I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
Albert Gallatin
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Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.
Albert Gallatin
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The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.
Albert Gallatin
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I think MythBusters is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.
Jamie Hyneman
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The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.
Julius Nyerere
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
Anne Carson
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
Roland Barthes
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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov
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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
William Labov
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I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London I love it.
Lore Segal
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
John Ciardi
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
David Mitchell
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. Lewis
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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
Angela Carter
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Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.
Deborah Tannen
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To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
Noam Chomsky
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
C. S. Lewis
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