Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Quotes to Explore
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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Never before has it been so easy to stay in touch with so many people electronically, but rarely has it seemed so difficult to maintain genuine human closeness.
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
