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“He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak defence against the effects of despair.”
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, Katorga: Exile; and Stalin is No More
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, Katorga: Exile; and Stalin is No More
“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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