"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

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Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

Edward Sapir

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“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.108, Macmillan
“If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.”

Source : "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.
“They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.”
“I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.”
“Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.”
“I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.”
“That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.”
“Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.”

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