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“The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. He accomplished a creative operation. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“Consider orangutans. In all the worlds graced by their presence, it is suspected that they can talk but choose not to do so in case humans put them to work, possibly in the television industry. In fact they can talk. It’s just that they talk in Orangutan. Humans are only capable of listening in Bewilderment.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“Our native gift of speech enables us to enter on the mental life of man by assimilating our cultural heritage. We come into existence mentally, by adding to our bodily equipment an articulate framework and using it for understanding experience. Human thought grows only within language and since language can exist only in a society, all thought is rooted in society.”
― The Study of Man
― The Study of Man
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