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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.


Ferdinand De Saussure

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GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
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APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
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FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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AUBREY GILBERT Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We die a day at a time
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR Hodor," said Hodor.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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SARAH J. MAAS I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
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JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark
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He is the Wise who...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
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FERDINAND DE LESSEPS Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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FERDINAND MARCOS The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
FERDINAND FOCH Good design should be honest.
FERDINAND PORSCHE If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
FERDINAND PORSCHE During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
FERDINAND PIECH If you fire people, you fire customers.
FERDINAND PIECH What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedic...
FERDINAND MOUNT We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique posi...
FERDINAND MOUNT The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that h...
FERDINAND MOUNT Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connect...
FERDINAND MOUNT In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
FERDINAND MOUNT For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because i...
FERDINAND MOUNT America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
FERDINAND MOUNT No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as...
FERDINAND MOUNT I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to me...
FERDINAND MOUNT Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing throug...
FERDINAND MOUNT According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed wit...
FERDINAND MOUNT It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it...
FERDINAND MOUNT A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and indep...
FERDINAND MOUNT Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ...
FERDINAND MOUNT Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that ...
FERDINAND MOUNT All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective ...
FERDINAND MOUNT We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
FERDINAND MOUNT For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in...
FERDINAND MOUNT One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
FERDINAND MOUNT Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent...
FERDINAND MARCOS I am not afraid to go to jail.
FERDINAND MARCOS The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
FERDINAND MARCOS To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once ...
FERDINAND MARCOS Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino w...
FERDINAND MARCOS Little boys have amazing minds.
FERDINAND MARCOS The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
FERDINAND MARCOS What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
FERDINAND MARCOS The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not...
FERDINAND MARCOS Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
FERDINAND MARCOS I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
FERDINAND MARCOS I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
FERDINAND MARCOS The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate pu...
FERDINAND MARCOS I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have n...
FERDINAND MARCOS Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ...
FERDINAND MARCOS There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
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FERDINAND MARCOS Once a champion, always a champion.
FERDINAND MARCOS A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
FERDINAND FOCH No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
FERDINAND BUISSON We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf...
FERDINAND BUISSON From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
FERDINAND BUISSON My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil...
FERDINAND MARCOS My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ...
FERDINAND MARCOS I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo...
FERDINAND MARCOS Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r...
FERDINAND PORSCHE My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit...
FERDINAND MARCOS History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
FERDINAND MOUNT I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
FERDINAND PORSCHE The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson...
FERDINAND MARCOS America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asia...
FERDINAND MARCOS For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the...
FERDINAND BUISSON There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad gam...
RIO FERDINAND If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's a...
RIO FERDINAND I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
FERDINAND MARCOS In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
FERDINAND MARCOS I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
FERDINAND I I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to arg...
FERDINAND MARCOS The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.
FERDINAND FOCH A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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FERDINAND FOCH If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football...
RIO FERDINAND It's not really going to make anyone rich,
FERDINAND MARCOS You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.
RIO FERDINAND I would venture to say that if you want to buy dollars, they would be cheapest here because of the v...
FERDINAND MARCOS We only sold a portion because, upon the advice of the World Bank, those carbon credits that we are ...
FERDINAND MARCOS Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.
FERDINAND MARCOS I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionar...
FERDINAND MARCOS I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
FERDINAND MARCOS From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for ...
FERDINAND LASSALLE I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
RIO FERDINAND Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I hear...
FERDINAND LASSALLE It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela
RIO FERDINAND I had a chat with the manager to get a clear picture about stories in the papers [about being droppe...
RIO FERDINAND I played against him in training every day and he used to elbow me, kick me and head-butt me,
RIO FERDINAND He's a fantastic player who's done very well in Scotland and he's an absolute handful.
RIO FERDINAND He's a quality player,
RIO FERDINAND I haven't played volleyball in over a year. I miss it but I think it helps. It's better than cross c...
RACHEL FERDINAND They've (Chelsea) been very consistent this season and deserve credit for that. We could have put a ...
RIO FERDINAND Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in tho...
FERDINAND MARCOS I'll be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford,
RIO FERDINAND President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
FERDINAND MARCOS But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
FERDINAND LASSALLE People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that nig...
RIO FERDINAND hit me like a thunderbolt.
RIO FERDINAND We're not expecting it to be the same as then at all,
RIO FERDINAND The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidenc...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN Without basic restructuring, the losses at the Volkswagen brand won't be eliminated.
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER It's really an open issue. I feel at the moment, it's 10 to 10 votes.
FERDINAND PIECH Volkswagen has made a strategic decision to expand in the area of heavy commercial vehicles, in line...
FERDINAND PIECH Above the 800 a day threshold we would have to produce the car in Europe. We will reach a decision i...
FERDINAND PIECH I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
FERDINAND PIECH The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is n...
FERDINAND PIECH During my career several people have tried to push me out the door, ... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH I never thought (the crowd) was that huge. When you realize you are not
alone, you grow strong...
FERDINAND MARCOS You even have tourists visiting the site which is great. It would make people more conscious about t...
FERDINAND MARCOS Do You Want To?
FRANZ FERDINAND Most people hear 'When the Levee Breaks' and they go, 'Well, it's just an homage to the 1927 Mississ...
FRANZ FERDINAND Franz Ferdinand: Hooks And Books.
FRANZ FERDINAND Better
FRANZ FERDINAND The O.C.
FRANZ FERDINAND He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.
FRANZ FERDINAND He and I are both big foodies.
FRANZ FERDINAND You Could Have It So Much Better.
FRANZ FERDINAND The rain still hasn't stopped.
FRANZ FERDINAND The value of the final few years of life to an 80-year-old means he'll spend whatever it costs for a...
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER Without basic restructuring, the losses at the Volkswagen brand won't be eliminated. Our analysis su...
FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER I didn't really like it up there (at Winchendon). I didn't like the dorm situation I was in. It was ...
FERDINAND BAILEY That's who I battle every day for a starting spot. Whoever comes to play in practice, that's who's s...
FERDINAND BAILEY He's doing good. He's up to par with his subjects. He tells me he likes it. The only thing is that t...
FERDINAND BAILEY He felt lonely and out of place. In the summer I saw the mood that he was in, he wasn't too happy wi...
FERDINAND BAILEY I know I can't go on forever - how can I forget it when my so-called team-mates keep asking me which...
LES FERDINAND I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different di...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for ...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental...
KARL FERDINAND BRAUN Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
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FERDINAND E. MARCOS A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Victory is a thing of the will.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ......
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Victory is a thing of the will.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more ...
FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
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