Quote by Edward Sapir
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. – Edward Sapir

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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. – Edward Sapir

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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

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. – Edward Sapir

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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical. – Henry George

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