What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.


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FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the...
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European langua...
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rationa...
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common ...
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole ...
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke...
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on...
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different perio...
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phen...
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far fr...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND EDRALIN MARCOS
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
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
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated an...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ide...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
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