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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. ↗

— J. A. Jance

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! ↗

— Walter Scott

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Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians. ↗

— Richard D. James

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Jump or stay in the boat. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. ↗

— Famke Janssen

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