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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#call #dislike #heresy #more #opinion

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#because #been #childhood #demented #early

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie. ↗

— Connie Britton

#louise #movie #obsessed #therefore #who

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #america #american #any #continental

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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