Mason Cooley Quotes About Language
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Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.
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English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.
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Language cannot say everything, fortunately.
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Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
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The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
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Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
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Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
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The best propaganda omits rather than invents
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Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
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