Famous quotes containing the words language, services and/or act:
“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraintsthe rules that run us. Language is using us to talkwe think were using the language, but language is doing the thinking, were its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)
“We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If youre looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Think of those barren places where men gather
To act in the terrible name of rectitude,
Of acned shame, punks pride, muscle or turf,
The bullys thin superiority.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
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