"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features."

-- Roman Jakobson

#Running Quotes #Taken Quotes #Giving Quotes

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”
“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.”
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
“I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.”
“I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.”
“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.”

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