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untiltheseashallfreethem asked: Today, in one of my favorite papers ("Frame Semantics", Charles Fillmore, 1982), I saw a sentence that made me think of your #quotes tag: "By contrast, a notion like REAL PANTS is unintelligible, because it is impossible to imagine something looking like pants and functioning like pants which do not, by virtue of those properties alone, count as being genuine pants." (For what it's worth, I happen to disagree with Fillmore about this particular example.)

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sp\: is A triangular? no.
sp\: is A morally triangular? no.

In future you will be called “Number Four.”  We’re not going to have any more of these floral fragrances around here.  It’s an insult to decent scents and flowers to give their names to you lot!

Weakness and confusion don’t feel anywhere near as good as power and certainty.

In ordinary use, you should never need to deal with this function.

He then dismissed as sub-human a character in a novel by the instructor, who subsequently refrained from recommending him for further courses.

Rothbard remembers being chided for not rereading Rand, by someone who boasted that he had already thrilled to Atlas Shrugged 35 times.

The perfect wank, or so it would seem.

But not to Paul Atreides.

The face-slaps would drastically change thousands of lives, and oddly enough, they continue to do so.