Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be ‘on the rob’.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don’t really take it as any slight that I wasn’t able to play on the record. It’s flattering just to play with them period.
We worked under a lot of pressure… three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.
Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
I think about dying. I’ve come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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