September 2010
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Yeah, right.
The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah right.”
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“And you run and and you run to catch up with the sun, but it is sinking…...”
– Time by Pink Flyod
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August 2010
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