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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

- Edward Sapir
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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.