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A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Apparently Argument Common Constructed Creation Demands Equally Fact Favour Foreign International Language Least Perhaps Potent Sacrifice Traditions

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So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Actually Advocate Both Common Concerned Constructed Far General How How Much International Language Much Procedure Proposals Rather Spirit Vocabulary Wondered

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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Adopt Advantage Attitude Because Constructed Great Great Advantage Himself Independence Instead Language Make Man Master Must National Obedient Really See Servant Speakers Tends Toward Which

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'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Constructed Draft Early Late Novel Only Thirties Twenties Worlds Wrote

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Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

~Eugenie Clark

Topics: Among Constructed Creatures Forms Hundred Million Million Years Most Nature Perfectly Sharks Some Survived Two Years

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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Air Badly Certain Constructed Follow Healthy Hospitals House Houses Insure Once Sick Sickness Stagnant

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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: Aspect Becoming Complexity Constructed Day-To-Day Democracy Doing Electoral Every Human Process Publicity Putting Show Single Symbols

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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

~Gael Garcia Bernal

Topics: About Basis Constructed Cynical Day-To-Day Democracy Electoral Give Hopeful Importance Much Perspective Process Real

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Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

~George Akerlof

Topics: Capture Characteristics Constructed Early Economic Institutions Market Models Prior Rarely Specific Unique 1960S

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The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

~George Stephenson

Topics: Before Came Constructed Country Lamp Long Might Part Persons Principles Safety Several Sir Stated Which

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