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“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion”

Sin Compassion Teach Practice Study Students Enlightenment Essence Profound Tolerance Rely Emptiness Urges Grammar Refrain Dualism

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.”

School Study Teacher Subjects Proud Periods Draws Mathematics Drawing Faculty Neglect Recalls Grammar Indulgence Retarded Distasteful

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.”

Study Divinity Grammar Meddling

Author:Robert Hooke

“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”

Language Given Process Goal Principles Study Particular Sentences Analysis Devices Construction Investigation Grammar Linguistics Syntax

Book:Syntactic Structures

Source: Syntactic Structures

“Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.”

Giving Happens Individual Study Accounts Currents Grammar

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”

Philosophy Suffering Language Study Artificial Grammar Linguistics Insufficient

Author:Martin Walser

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”

Way Should Writing Children Reason Speak Study Mystery Students Taught Please Exciting Sentences Medical Damn Grammar Anatomy

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.”

Study Paper Pencils Grammar

Author:Emily Saliers