These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. ↗
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. ↗