"Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying."

Grammar, Language, Study, Structure

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"Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying."

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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."

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"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."

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"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."

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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."

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"You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Grammar, Language, Expression, Learning, Word

"I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine."

Karl von Frisch, Austrian Scientist

Grammar, Medicine, School, University

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason."

Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Clergyman

Grammar, Logic, Reason, Speech

"It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me."

Bo Derek, American Actress

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"What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses."

David Baker, American Composer

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"Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Grammar, Language, Study, Structure

"A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'"

A. P. Martinich, American Philosopher

Grammar, Philosophy