"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."

-- Roman Jakobson

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“Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.”

Source : "A killer crossover". Interview with Sam Alipour, abcnews.go.com. January 24, 2014.
“Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.”
“My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.”
“I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.”

Source : "Last surviving U.S. World War I vet honored by president" by Paul Courson, edition.cnn.com. March 8, 2008.
“When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.”

Source : Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.”
“At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.”
“Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.”

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