"The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills."

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Source : Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

Arika Okrent

#Color Quotes #Skills Quotes #Tangled Quotes

“After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.”
“A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.”
“Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “She”, p.281, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”
“My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.”
“I was always really into the music rather than the scene.”
“Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.”

Source : "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

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