Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.
I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.