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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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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

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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

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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

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