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(3pm) Quotes:

Benjamin Whorf-"The Hopi emphasize the intensity-factor of thought. Thought to be most effective should be vivid in consciousness, definite, steady, sustained, charged with strongly felt good intentions. They render the idea in English as ‘concentrating, holding it in your heart, putting your mind to it, earnestly hoping.’"

Stuart Chase-"Whorf as I read him makes two cardinal hypotheses: first, that all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language. Second, that the structure of the language one habitually uses influences the manner in which one understands his environment. The picture of the universe shifts from tongue to tongue."

(8pm) I am definitely feeling melancholy today.

I keep searching for something new to study, but can't fix on anything. (Nothing really excites me right now.)-(Not even girl watching.)

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