"Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use."

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Source : Jean Aitchison (1997). “The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

Jean Aitchison

#Writing Quotes #Use Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.”
“Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.”
“In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the shelves in supermarkets. From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years, and we intend to do everything to keep that position.”
“I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.”
“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Source : "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.
“Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.”
“I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.”
“Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]”

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