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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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Explore more quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
Language
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
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"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
Man
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
Men
"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
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"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
Absurdity
"Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe."
Society
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