- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
- Eccentric
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- Nov 07, 2020