"The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step."

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Source : Leonard Bloomfield (1994). “Language”, p.21, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Leonard Bloomfield

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“Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.”
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
“I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state”
“Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.”

Source : "Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century". Book by Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, billmoyers.com. 1974.
“Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.”

Source : Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books
“I'm easily entertained.”
“The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.”

Source : Interview with Camilla Johnson-Hill, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2010.

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