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"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 conceived in sin and science is its redemption."
Science
"To be is to be the value of a variable."
Values
"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."
Confusion
"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
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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."
Philosophy
"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
Nature
"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
Language
"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
First
"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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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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"I didn't fancy any of my teachers."
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"You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests."
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"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
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"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."
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"Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton."
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"Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid."
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"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
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"If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'"
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"I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it."
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