#ear

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. ↗

— George Santayana

#bid #divine #faith #heart #led

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#early 1990s #emerged #grunge #influence #major

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#different #go #hear #i #just

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#believe #down #drum #given #go

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#course #crowd #dear #heart #hopeless

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. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#certain #choices #community #experience #habits