Language shapes what we can think and imagine - Edward Said

"Language shapes what we can think and imagine"

Edward Said Imagination

Literary Critic, Theorist Palestinian-American 1935–2003

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"Secular humanism is not a negation of religion; it is a form of religion"

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"The world is full of mysteries waiting to be solved."