Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.


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KARL FERDINAND BRAUN
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
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...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE