Quote by Edward Sapir
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality ess

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

Other quotes by Edward Sapir

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. – Edward Sapir

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Business
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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. – Edward Sapir

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Science
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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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alone
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Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition. – Jack Welch

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communication

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. – Marcel Proust

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communication

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them. – Leo Rosten

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communication

The thing Ive come to learn is that whats great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when youre making them. – Guy Pearce

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communication

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Its red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as Ive finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. – Tony Hancock

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Pornography

A horse is the projection of peoples dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. – Pam Brown

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Dreams

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. Thats a huge, huge thing. – Gwen Stefani

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Family

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Dreams