"The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary."

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Ferdinand de Saussure

#Connections Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.”
“Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isnâ€™t a question of if; itâ€™s a question of when.”
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
“A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.”
“There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.”
“If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.”
“I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.”
“There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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