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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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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."

"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!"

"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"In your winter you deny your spring."
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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."


"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."


"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."


"'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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