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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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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
Universe
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
Science
"God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis."
God
"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
"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
Perspective
"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
Science
"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
Behavior
"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."
Nature
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
Theory
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