"Language helps form the limits of our reality."

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Dale Spender

#Reality Quotes #Limits Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.”
“If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.”
“I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”
“Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.”
“Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”
“We are each other's magnitude and bond.”
“I like being around people.”
“The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.”

Source : Jane Yolen (1989). “Guide to writing for children”, Writer

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