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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

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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

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Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

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He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ↗

— Richard Savage

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I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#again #available #better #bin #clarke

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review. ↗

— Otto Schily

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