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“Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.”
Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.394, Univ of California Press
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“This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.”
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“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
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“Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”
Source : Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.
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“I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're alienating people who deserve to have a conversation, or a place in the conversation. If you take the complete inverse and are staunchly anti-intellectual, then I think there's a certain amount of resentfulness in that. There's something about that standpoint that feels a little bit insecure.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”
Source : Hugh Blair (1858). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair”, p.263
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“Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”
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“I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.”
