"My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms."

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Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#Air Quotes #Space Quotes #Analysis Quotes

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.66, Vintage
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
“Opinions, from experts, cost money.”
“I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff”
“It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.”

Source : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.
“You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.”
“Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.”
“A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.602, e-artnow

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