Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Author : Sun Tzu
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Author : Lou Brock
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Author : Orson Pratt
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Author : Philip Emeagwali
