"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."

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Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

Edward Sapir

#Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, L'Immortalité de l'Âme, 1922.
“I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it to have some substance because I feel as if I have a lot of things to say and wanted it to have something to it.”
“With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.”
“If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.”
“A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.”
“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
“Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.”

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