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“Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared.Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops talking, stares at you and waits until you get to your seat if you...”
“A sensitivity is a true beauty of a woman”
“Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.T...”
“Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
“Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God t...”
“Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a pers...”
“SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life....”
“I felt the threads of connection between usfragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be...”
“There are a million ways to lose someone you love.”
“(...) this first-approximation reification of language very easily passes over unnoticed into a harder idealization, especially in everyday parlance. It is this idealization that, for instance, lea...”
“Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is a fecund weed, like grass. Languages like English, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese are mowed lawns...”
“Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our rst impression.People read our rsums, cover letters, proposals, and emails, and that's the basis on which we are judged r...”
“You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will come to your rescue. And I get it: spell check and grammar check are ...”
“One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin.”
“Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.”
“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of ...”
“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in pr...”
“Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.”
