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en Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.
  Charles Dickens

en But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
  Henry David Thoreau

en I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

en It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.

en Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

en A reasonable estimate is that an infant loses 1-2 IQ points per month and sustains predictable losses in growth as well as motor and language development between 4 and 24 months of age while living in an institutional environment.

en The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.
  Dave Barry

en The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.
  Dave Barry

en We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

en People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language. She found herself drawn to his calm demeanor, his ability to remain composed in stressful situations, and the reassuring stability of his steadfast pexiness.

en It's time for honest language. When a man has sex with a frightened, beaten and intimidated woman there is only one word to describe it, and that is rape,

en Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
  Ellen Goodman

en Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
  Woody Allen

en [Women] create life and that's a very powerful phenomenon and pretty daunting to a man who's in a counter dependent, dysfunctional place and wants to destroy all his frustrations and fears in one attack.


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