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"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
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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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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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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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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."
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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."
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"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."
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"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."
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"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."
Behavior
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
Language
"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."
Life
"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
Conscience
"God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis."
God
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
Science
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
Identity
"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success."
Success
"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
Society
"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
Man
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