"Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change."

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Source : PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

Peter Farb

#Change Quotes #Doe Quotes #Language Quotes

“A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.”
“If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.”

Source : Speech at The Gruber Foundation, recieving "Women's Rights Prize", 2009.
“I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.”
“We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.”
“For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.”

Source : Nicholas Udall (1869). “Roister Doister: Written, Probably Also Represented, Before 1553”, p.10
“I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.”
“Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.”
“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?”

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