"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."

-- Edward Sapir

#Simplicity Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Helping Quotes

“And when somebody knows you well, well there's no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there's no drug like that.”

Source : Song: London Rain, Album: Siren
“A man is accountable to no person for his doings.”

Source : "James Otis's speech on the Writs of assistance" edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing, William Tudor, Hart, Albert Bushnell,.
“I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.”
“Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!”
“True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”
“We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.”
“I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.”
“Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.”

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