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“It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.”
― When My Name Was Keoko
― When My Name Was Keoko
“Friendship is work, and a commitment, and a practice.”
― All This Could Be Different
― All This Could Be Different
“Just as we would be inestimably poorer to be denied the opportunity to see giraffes, roses, bombardier beetles, tulips, and little black house cats with white spots on their chests that sit on our laps as we write, we lose one of the true wonders of the world every time one of these glorious variations on a theme set by the first language slips away unrecorded for posterity.”
― The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
― The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
“What If I cut off your arm right now?
Then you'd see how fast the Institution would cast you aside.
Just like they did me."
"You wouldn't."
"No I wouldn't.
And I'm the villain.
What do you suppose that says about you?”
― Nimona
Then you'd see how fast the Institution would cast you aside.
Just like they did me."
"You wouldn't."
"No I wouldn't.
And I'm the villain.
What do you suppose that says about you?”
― Nimona
“The world's riffs on basic material that emerged in East Africa around 148,000 BC represent six thousand ways of being human”
― The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
― The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
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