"A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard"

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Source : Kate Burridge, Jean Gail Mulder (1999). “English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use”

Kate Burridge

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“At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.”
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin
“Character is a wish for a perfect education.”
“I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.”
“You have to have a certain kind of celebrity to pull something that big together, but I had a whole thing called The Spirit of Man that I wanted to do worldwide concerts in celebration for the spirit of man. So, as I move forward, that would be the kind of thing that I have.”
“I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.”
“We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.”
“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”

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