Passive Margin/key Components

Famous quotes containing the words passive, margin, key and/or components:

    It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    I love a broad margin to my life.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The key word in my plays is “perhaps.”
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)