Lawrence Kaplan famous quotes

The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.
-- Lawrence Kaplan

#Alaska #Waiting #Language

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.
-- Lawrence Kaplan

#War #Names #Iraq

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.
-- Lawrence Kaplan

#Running #Party #Ministry

I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.
-- Lawrence Kaplan

#War #Thinking #Important

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.
-- Lawrence Kaplan

#Democracy #Culture #Want

Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.