Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Fear, she's the mother of violence.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
