“It is language which most shows a man.” — William H. Gass, “Learning to Talk,” Commencement address for Washington University’s Class of 1979 (1979-05-18)
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Quote of the Day
“Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs.” — John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
Quote of the Day
“Metaphor is the language of relationships, the language of natural systems, in which there is room to communicate in spectrums of possibility, instead of tightly defined cul-de-sacs.” — Nora Bateson, An Ecology of Mind
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