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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen."
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"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."
"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."
"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified."
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."
"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features."
"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
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