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“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.”

Thinking Writing May Littles Book Language Effects Goes On Spite

Author:Charlton Laird

“An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.”

People Littles War Speak Language Special Communication International Communicate Inability Friction Ferocity Inability To Communicate

Book:WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

“Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.”

Littles Fighting Language Scene Gestures Oath Frantic Taunting

Book:Georgia Scenes

Source: Georgia Scenes

“Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.”

Littles Language Society Mathematics Grammar

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.”

Should Littles Language Voice Style Expression Great Things Tone Little Things Emphasis Spoiled Lofty Delivery

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Le charme de la nouveaute , peu a' peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a' nu l'e ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me" mes formes et le me" me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.”

Littles Form Fall Passion Language Eternal Charm Novelty Robes Monotony

Author:Gustave Flaubert