#gene

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#both #common #concerned #constructed #far

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#experience #forces #generally #maximum #means

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#exercise #function #generosity #know #life

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#craft #deserves #enough #enough people #general

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #character #did #extremes #fact

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#branch #general #language #languages #laws

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. ↗

— Dan Savage

#allergic #dogs #even #gay #gene