William Dwight Whitney Quotes
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
