"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."

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J. L. Austin

#Ordinary Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Language Quotes

“The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.”
“Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?”
“A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws.”
“Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.”
“I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.”

Source : Interview with Matt Yette, www.antsmarching.org. September 13, 2012.
“I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.”
“Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”

Source : Holly Smale (2015). “All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK
“The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.”

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