"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."

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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."

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"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."

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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."

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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."

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

Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Clergyman

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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

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

A. P. Martinich, American Philosopher

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

Karl von Frisch, Austrian Scientist

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