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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.


Edward Sapir

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JILL LEPORE Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER The interests of national defense are preserved.
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OSWALD MOSLEY It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific inquiry.
JOHN WILEY incapable of advancing Germany's national interests.
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BEN ELTON grave damage to national security interests.
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EDWARD SAPIR I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more...
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EDWARD SAPIR Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is...
EDWARD SAPIR It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua...
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EDWARD SAPIR The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors be...
EDWARD SAPIR More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
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JOHN NEGROPONTE It is extremely damaging to U.S. national interests.
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LYSANDER SPOONER I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interest...
ASHTON EATON The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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