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:— Robert Prentice<ref>[https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Prentice-Robert Robert Prentice], quoted in {{author|Gabrielle Bluestone}}’s {{br|Hype}}</ref>}}{{quote| | :— Robert Prentice<ref>[https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Prentice-Robert Robert Prentice], quoted in {{author|Gabrielle Bluestone}}’s {{br|Hype}}</ref>}}{{quote| | ||
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings do that. | The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings do that. | ||
: | :—[[Richard Rorty]]<ref>{{plainlink|https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n07/richard-rorty/the-contingency-of-language|“The Contingency of Language”}}, ''London Review of Books'', 17 April 1986</ref>}}{{Quote| | ||
All the lies I told to you: <br> | All the lies I told to you: <br> | ||
Some of them came true. | Some of them came true. | ||