"Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it."

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Source : "Watch what you're saying!: Linguist David Crystal on Twitter, texting and our native tongue" by Joy Lo Dico, www.independent.co.uk. March 14, 2010.

David Crystal

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“Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!”
“Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.”

Source : "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.
“He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.”
“Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.”
“The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.”
“Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.”
“God created us to thrive on encouragement from others”

Source : Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2014). “The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
“There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.”

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