Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
J. August Richards
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond
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I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.
Steve Jobs
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I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.
Quentin Tarantino
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
William James
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Small changes can make huge destination differences.
Sean Covey
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We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.
Dean Frazer
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
