“We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) American linguist
Source: Language, thought and reality (1956), p. 66.
“We are to a large extent an imitative society.”
RTNDA Convention Speech (1958)
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Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future
"Restriction on Freedom is Unavoidable in Industrial Society", item 119
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
“Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.”
Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926–2003) Academic, novelist
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
“Relativism and the Use of Language,” pp. 123-124.
Language is Sermonic (1970)
Context: If we share to a large extent in the mutuality of spirit which makes meaning possible, we are receptive to true meanings; if we do not, we may accept wrong or perverted ones. And since there is no way of getting outside the human imagination to decide otherwise what a word should mean, we are compelled to realize that the most imaginative users of language are those who are going to have the greatest influence upon vocabulary in the long run.
“North Korea's future depends on a large extent on South Korea's future.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)
Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union
Quoted in "Memoirs" - Page 167 - by Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko, Harold Shukman - 1990
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher
Ordeal by Labyrinth, Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet (1982), <!-- Chicago Press --> p. 148
Context: The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
“We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.”
Desiderius Erasmus book Ciceronianus
in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
Ciceronianus (1528)
