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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.


Benjamin Whorf

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WILLIAM PAISLEY Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creature...
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CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
CHARLES F. KETTERING Though we think, we speak using a different language, a language that we create using words.
AUSTIN GLEN MILLER In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI