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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
Language
"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy."
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"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
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"Language is a social art."
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"To be is to be the value of a variable."
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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."
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