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"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will."
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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
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"Stability, insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this."
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"Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!"
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"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
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"Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts."
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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
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"Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily."
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"The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it."
Adoption
"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
Communication
"Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand."
Desire
"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
Science
"Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit."
Time
"The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant."
Attitude
"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will."
Control
"No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism."
Language
"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
Business
"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them."
Language
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