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"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

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"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

"Peano Curve at The Internet Encyclopedia of Science"

"It is impossible that Christendom finds its peace in God's will, if the priesthood is not being called to order."

"If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it."

"The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding."

"A consequence of the reconstruction offered here is that the attested distribution of IE then turns out to be no singularity but just one regular episode in a standing pattern of spreads."

"It is not possible to fully understand modern world culture without appreciating its connection and its continuity with the heritage of classical culture."

"Theosophy holds that all things, including the human mind, are evolving. We are in the midst of an unfinished world and are ourselves unfinished."

"I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school."

"The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes:—1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform."

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🇬🇧Helena Norberg-Hodge

Entertainment

b. 1946

"For our species to have a future, it must be local."

"American society has always exercised a stronger pressure on individual behavior than Western European societies; but in time of war this pressure is notched a few degrees, and starts to become quite alarming."

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🇬🇧Jane Ellen Harrison

"From childhood to the age of six, I do not remember anything but shaving my head and suffering from it."

"The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons."

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🇺🇸Robert Lees (linguist)

"the science of the meanings of words, the problem of the relationship between words and designata."

"Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive — that is, as immodest — as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem."

"When you move into a new place, it does involve a refashioning of the self. We derive our sense of identity at least partly in relation to the landscape around us, in which we’ve grown up..…"

"We must realize the extent to which it is necessary that our knowledge of language be based on history. Only history can impart to words that degree of precision which we need in order to understand them well."

"Complete list of publications by Snježana Kordić at CROSBI"

"Foregrounding, as I understand it, is prominence that is motivated"

"Mechanics, according to the principles of the theory of extension" An English translation of one Grassmann's papers on the applications of exterior algebra"

"You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me."

"Strictly speaking, the grammatical method of resolving a sentence into parts is nothing but a fanciful procedure ; but it is the real fountain of all knowledge, since it led to the invention of writing."

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🇮🇪Marnie Holborow

Politics

"Neoliberalism, despite the claim by its adherents that it was simply an economic theory, was from its beginnings a class project articulated on behalf of the interests of capital."

"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones..."

"In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable."

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🇮🇱Moshe Goshen-Gottstein

Education

1925–1991

"It may be said, without exaggeration, that there is no other text which is documented by such varied types of sources."

🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"An Introduction to Medical Literature, Including a System of Practical Nosology Thomas Young"

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