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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#creative #international #international language #language #logical

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#couch #else #favorite #i #me

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#begin #clean #dreamers #guns #homes

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking. ↗

— David Satcher

#every #help #like #only #percent

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#career #go #heart #i #ill

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky