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"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
Change
"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."
Courage
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
Identity
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
Language
"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success."
Success
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
Universe
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
Science
"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."
Behavior
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
Theory
"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
Innovation
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