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“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.”

Choices Language Loses Fate Worst Graves Retirement Retiring

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”

Should Moments Facts Values Choices Language Given Natural Handle Fixed Gaps Schemes Uncertain Definite Factual

Author:Saul Kripke

“The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.”

Men Mind Ideas Matter Choices Language Common Talking Masters Speech Scarcity Owing Fluency

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.”

Choices Language Sound Rights Heard Missing Court Caring Abortion Supporter Vocabulary Ambivalent

Author:Ellen Goodman

“Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.”

People Ifs Turns Choices Language Pay Bounds Cables

Author:Robin Williams

“I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.”

Giving Should Believe Use Choices Language I Believe Forever Effects Vocabulary

Book:Modern-Day Miracles

Source: Modern-Day Miracles

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.”

Firsts May Said Choices Language Psychology Approach Consequence Agree Disagree Ads Linguistics Thesis Behaviorism

Book:Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays

Source: Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.”

Men Mean Matter Choices Language Force Understanding Learning Ill Definitions Confusion Explanation Fancy Discourse Associates Vulgar Confusing Controversy Apprehension Things Learned

Author:Francis Bacon

“FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.”

Reason Choices Three Language Race Programming Computer Language

Author:Ken Thompson

“The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.”

Knows Way Film Choices Language Grows Decision Figures Possibility Directors Limits Make Sense Theme Visuals

Author:Darren Aronofsky