The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as th
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Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd rea
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a so
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The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability
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When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that
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The core problem of human language ... I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite numb
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
We understand through resemblance.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
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