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In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so commonplace. On every side of him there are words by the millions, an unending succession of pamphlets and papers, letters and books, bills and bulletins, commentaries and conversations. He has diluted and multiplied the Word, and words have begun to close in on him. He is sated and insensitive; his regard for language -- for the Word itself -- as an instrument of creation has diminished nearly to the point of no return. It may be that he will perish by the Word.


N. Scott Momaday


#creativity #language #modernity #change

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.


Megan Whalen Turner


#responsibility #life

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.


Lexa Doig


#cigarettes #duff #exactly #girl #healthy

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...


Bernice L. McFadden


#change

It doesn't take much to make me happy.


Lexa Doig


#make #me #much #take

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.


Arnold Bennett


#change

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.


W.H. Auden


#fear #change

You might not be able to change your situation but prayer can.


Jerry Kinard


#change

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average


Stephen Hawking


#forecasting #global-warming #weather #change

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.


Zelda Fitzgerald


#travel #change






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