Miran Baker

“according to the unanimous opinion of anthropologists, the organization of enforced labor is one of the essentials of civilization.”
― Stanton Coit, Is civilization a disease?

“Do you speak perfectly in your native language? No, and you don’t blame yourself for making mistakes in your native tongue. So why feel bad when you make mistakes while speaking a foreign language?”
― Rocket Learning Books, LANGUAGE: HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE FAST! An Essential But Surprisingly Simple Guide to Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time: fluent, test preparation, ... instruction, learn foreign language Book 1)

“(‘A clever stratagem or plan intended to deceive or trick’; ‘Smaller; inferior; minor’, the respective definitions in Chambers Concise Dictionary state). Information on spelling is similar, based on evidence rather than opinion. The dictionary as reference book sorts out with ease the unintentional influence of homophones (as in the inadvertent use of baited breath rather than bated breath, of flare when flair was intended, or the different semantic territories of Viking hordes and Viking hoards).”
― Lynda Mugglestone, Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

“To achieve a just society we have to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably arise.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?