"One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb."

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Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.268, Walter de Gruyter

Edward Sapir

#Simplicity Quotes #Verbs Quotes #Nouns Quotes

“Grind the faces of the poor.”
“Clouds float in the same pattern only once.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2017
“After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."”
“I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.”
“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Source : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.
“That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions”

Source : "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.
“I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.”
“The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.”

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