"Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human."

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Weston La Barre

#Men Quotes #Safe Quotes #Language Quotes

“There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.”
“Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.”

Source : Victor Manuel Rivera (2010). “In Search of True Freedom”, p.40, Xulon Press
“All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.”
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
“The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.”
“Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.”
“Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.153, Knopf
“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”

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