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"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock."
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"I always try to give my songs as gifts."
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"Each person has a sacred potential for a specific purpose."
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"A woman's gifts will make room for her."
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"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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"I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship."
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"Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life."
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"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."
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"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."
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"You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have."
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"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known."
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"No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism."
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"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."
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"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves."
Age
"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."
Content
"Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population."
Time
"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."
Experience
"It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist."
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"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
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"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
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