"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Museums Quotes #Labels Quotes #Language Quotes

“What is the alt-right? It's a dressed-up term for white nationalism. They call themselves white identitarianism. They say that the tribalism that's inherent in the human spirit ought to be also applied to white people.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

Source : "The Farming of Bones". Book by Edwidge Danticat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1998.
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”
“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.”
“I used up every cent I earned as an actress.”
“It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.”
“That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]”

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