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#dialect

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It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.


Michael Bakunin


#dialectics #theism #anarchism

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.


Theodor Adorno


#break #coercion #dialectic #logic #means

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.


Jean Baudrillard


#antagonism #dialectical #equilibrium #evil #extremes

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.


Mason Cooley


#another #dialect #hard #only #perfected

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.


Robin Tunney


#dialects #disorders #give #happy #love

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.


Emily Carr


#big #born #dialect #different #half

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.


Ralph Fiennes


#broad #dialect #first #get #heard

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.


Martin Henderson


#about #accent #along #american #american accent

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.


Christopher Hitchens


#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.


Walt Whitman


#both #composition #dialect #english #english language






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