Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I am a just man.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.
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It's about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us and whoever does best will come out best.
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Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.
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I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
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Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.
