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Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was a British philosopher, author, poet, critic, and member of the Inklings.

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When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

Change, Community, General, Shifting, Significant Change, Takes

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

Character, History, Illuminating, Past, Reading

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

Certain, Increase, Progress, Velocity

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Lost, Obvious, Point, Sight

. . . the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

Anew, Creating, Old, Poet, Restoring

By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one. . . . Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.

Against, Historical, Men, Natural, Perhaps, Would Be

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Essence, Language, Marking, Metaphorical, Relation, Unapprehended

In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

Attitude, Feelings, Life, Races, Sleep, Use

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Melinda Doolittle

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Catherine Coleman

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Robert J. Flaherty

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Bartolome de las Casas

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Michel Houellebecq

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Thomas Sprat

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Karen Carney

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Andrew Mehrtens

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Timur

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ElRay L. Christiansen

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Simon Mignolet

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti