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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. — Len Wein

All forms of oppression carry their own semantics. — Judd Trichter

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas. — John Hadac

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not. — Michael Robotham

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game. — Talulah Riley

I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end. — Cary Fukunaga

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up. — Amos Tversky

Overrated is order. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality. — Ashish Dalela

I like to believe prayers aren't tethered to semantics. — P.C. Cast

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. — Tom Stoppard

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. — Betty Buckley

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What you believe you experience. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. — Werner Erhard

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70) — Jerry A. Fodor

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics. — Glenn Beck

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself. — Criss Jami

Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The pervert."
"He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant."
"Semantics. — Ilona Andrews

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H.R. Haldeman

Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. — Alfred Korzybski

Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. — Cormac McCarthy

The thought is not the thing. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Go home, Butch. I'm not going to do anything stupid." [Vishous to Butch]
"Stupider, you mean."
"Semantics are for shit. — J.R. Ward