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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass! ↗

— Adam Savage

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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. ↗

— Dan Savage

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Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents. ↗

— Dan Savage

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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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