“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoMatterHardCharacterLanguageSexWomenInterestingHalfRevolutionLimitsBehaviorDecadesStatementsCondemningConnotationPromiscuousSexual Revolution Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.” MenMindMeanTwoIdeasDifferentLanguageDifferencesProduceVarietyCharacteristicsInadequateDifferent Minds Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.” KnowsMenMayTwoCountryUseLanguageCommonEducationOpinionKnowledgeKnowingLearningModernEnglandGreekGreat MenThrownLive ByCustomsLatinClosetsAmusementGeographyIntercourseBargainsComplianceUseful KnowledgeModern Languages Author:Lord Chesterfield
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.” PeopleTwoLanguagePerfectTechnologyProveSevenMathematicalPrecision Author:Anton Chekhov
“... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?” TwoSeemsTurnsLanguageSidesHoursBrainPrinciplesEqualMathematicsRemainsSticksCornersClockSquaresGeometryTwo SidesAlgebraTheoremsTrianglesTrigonometry Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
“I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!” TwoLanguageNew YorkPleaseExcuseI Have LearnedEnglish Language Book:It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum Source: It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum
“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.” IfsChildrenDoeTwoAbleCertainLanguageEasyHalfDisciplineSatisfactionHeavyTechniqueCommandBlockImpulseSubstitutesOfferingProhibitionSubstitutionRedirection Author:Selma Fraiberg
“Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.” IfsWayWantTwoWantedLanguageCommunicateHatsThrowingScreamStressed Author:Temple Grandin
“Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.” MenWorldWayKindTwoSelfAbleCultureSpeakLanguageBlackCommunityWhitePerspectiveRaisedGrandparentAdoptedTwo WaysBipartisan Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.” HumansChildrenTwoThreeLanguageHuman BeingsMovementUniqueImpressionRhythmCorrelationChimpanzeesAnalog Author:Oliver Sacks
“A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.” TwoSometimesUseLanguageCapableIntentionBoundsObviousDeceivingSatyagrahaTwo Meaning Author:Mahatma Gandhi