Sajia Afrin

“Not all babies learn to play chess or hunt penguins or play the didgeridoo, but except in cases of pathology they all master their first language. Indeed, failure to master one’s first language is taken to reflect a pathological condition; failing to master algebra or the piccolo has no such implication.”
― Neilson Voyne Smith, Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

“(...) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians all sought help from exorcists and omen-interpreters to gain protection from malign supernatural entities and discover the future.”
― D.K. Publishing, A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult

“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.”
― Anthon St. Maarten