"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."

-- Roman Jakobson

#Progress Quotes #Study Quotes #Language Quotes

“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”
“All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.”

Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.132, Seal Press
“We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.”
“The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".”

Source : Source: u-in-u.com
“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
“Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.”
“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.”
“I am not a sports girl.”

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