We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Edward Sapir
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of o... JAMES E. FAUST When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made i... ERIK PEVERNAGIE If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our duty as such. LORD SALISBURY Karma: A spiritual interpretation of the consequences of predictable habits and patterns CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS) A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the ... GEORGE MOORE Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. SONIA JOHNSON Preparation is good for success and it is a noble thing to prepare excellently for success, but in r... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, r... JASON VERSEY What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As good as (Internet) technology is and the choices it provides, nothing will ever replace the share... GARY ZENKEL She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Words speak to the mind through the ears; actions speak to the mind through the eye ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We Learn . . . 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of wha... WILLIAM GLASSER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It's very important. We see growth in, say, the Hispanic community. It's the right time to start wor... CARLOS MACIAS The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet e... BRANDON LEE There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As ... J. DONALD WALTERS Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because w... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. SOURCE UNKNOWN Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL There is ... a great wisdom in our language. It is the embodiment of innumerable experiences of the ... PAUL TILLICH, THE SHAKING OF THE FOUNDATIONS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Our schedule was very tough this season and it's been a huge success largely because of the strength... BILL CLEARY We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I don't see any retreat when it comes to our basic values, ... We feel that what we stand for is sti... DICK DURBIN Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the u... JUNE JORDAN It was a wonderful, vibrant place, and its loss was a big blow to the community. It was very much an... JAY BOWES Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our char... HENRY HANCOCK Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear ... CHARLES DARWIN We're particularly conscious of the need to help spouses. Usually the diplomats will be able to spea... DAVID POWELL Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see... SOURCE UNKNOWN We are making these conscience decisions for our schools as well as the overall interpretation of ou... JASON BRISCOE We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys... CHRIS WARE We create our habits, and our habits create our lives. JIM GENOVESE We think that the Hispanic community has been isolated from information resources and help because o... ANA BAUSERMAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv... DAVID LEVITHAN We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear wh... FRANK LUNTZ After all, we do owe everything we are to others. This is simply true. The language we speak and eve... DAVID GRAEBER We are very glad to hear of their release and waiting to see them. MAXINE NASH The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,... JOHN LE CARRE The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,... JOHN LECARRE We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live wit... MARK MATTESON We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator rea... KAMAND KOJOURI Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it... ANOMNOUS You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI My hope is that we can do something that over time changes our community. Because I don't see signs ... KARL NURSE We aren't making any public comments because of pending litigation and are waiting to hear from our ... HENRY ENG We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. NEIL GAIMAN You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the ... E.A. BUCCHIANERI So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it... MICHAEL POLANYI It's very important because it gives us a chance to be visible in the community, so people can see w... DEBRA WALKER We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we sow ou... DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS We're very excited about Rick because he brings a wealth of experience and is very high on fundament... BOB STANLEY By the way, I love you.” “That’s why we're here. STEPHENIE MEYER Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. JAMES BALDWIN Mom said we should go and see where we stand. We wanted to get a baseline of where we stood and wher... NICK TAYLOR We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. JOHN DRYDEN We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. BIBLE We try to know our community and reflect our community in everything we do. JAMES BRADLEY Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ... PREM PRAKASH Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives ... LAUREN MYRACLE We want to drive our cars and we want to do so one car per person. We have not changed our habits de... MITCH PALLY We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know... HOLLY BLACK Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. E.A. BUCCHIANERI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own... BILL MOYERS The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN Our success as a party will be determined largely by how well we do here, EVAN BAYH When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Al... FRANCO FABBRI Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstractio... JANE GOODALL Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and ou... MICHAEL LEUNIG We take the protection of our Web site and our community of users very seriously and we think this c... CHRIS DONLAY Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul.... AMIT RAY To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do
this, you need to ... DEEPAK CHOPRA I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain... ROXANE GAY It's more than a business to us. Our No. 1 source of information is strictly the paper ... and for a... BRUCE GJOVIG The community has been very good to us and we wanted to show our appreciation. We thought of this as... HARVEY ROPER When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expre... THOMAS MOORE Habits of close attention, thinking heads,
Become more rare as dissipation spreads,
Till autho... WILLIAM COWPER We are very proud to be a part of the community here. Not only do we work with local businesses and ... GARY SHIELDS We decide on what items to replace based on the demand and popularity of the item and also if it is ... DEB BEISELL We hope that we will hear from all members of our community whether or not they have children in the... ANN CLARK In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we fi... VERONICA ROTH The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. CHRIS PRENTISS Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we ... MICHAEL ARCURI
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She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
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Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
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Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... 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