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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Lying, Science, Use, Lies, Disagreement
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Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Evolved, Having, Language, Use, Words, World

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

Agreement, Discovery, Economic, Mathematics, Two

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

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Identity is invariably false to facts.

Facts, False, Identity, Invariably, Self Esteem

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

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