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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10870)

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Let us have sweet girl graduates by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the golden hair will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
Thomas Huxley
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The translator constantly learns new things about himself.
Ventseslav Konstantinov
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Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Assia Djebar
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
Enoch Powell
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gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Thomas de Quincey
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
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I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.
Haruki Murakami
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
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Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
James O. Fraser
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
C. S. Lewis
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
Thomas Huxley
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Samuel Johnson
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
Paul Auster
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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
Samuel Beckett
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
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It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.
Jane Hirshfield
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Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.
Noam Chomsky
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The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
H. L. Mencken
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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