"Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas."

-- Dale Spender

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“... people miss a great deal by being sensible.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer...”
“With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.”
“I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.”
“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.”
“Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2007). “Phantom Waltz”, p.76, Penguin
“[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.”

Source : Source: www.cyinterview.com
“If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.”

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