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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed.
— Jodi Picoult
Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
— Cory Booker
My hatred is diamond-hard.
— Jim Goad
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
— Akio Morita
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
— Ingrid Bergman
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
What you build in your dreams build in reality.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
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.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
— Garth Stein
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.
— Stephen Dillane