"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."

-- Kenneth Lee Pike

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“When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!”
“I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality. Yes, the excess of reality had become an unreality, but that unreality had turned suddenly into a balcony from which I peered intoâ€”what? Into that which is beyond and still has no nameâ€¦”
“If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.”
“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”
“You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.”
“I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.”
“Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.
“The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.”

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