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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."

"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."

"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."

"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it."
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"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."


"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."


"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."


"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."


"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in 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."


"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."


"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."


"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."


"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."
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