"We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas."

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Source : Interview with Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.

William Labov

#Focus Quotes #Pairs Quotes #Different Quotes

“If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.”
“It is for truth that God created genius.”
“We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.”
“I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.”
“I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.”
“I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.”
“Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?”

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