#fr

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#american people #bush #concerned #condition #frighten

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#choose #facts #french #french people #hiding

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #confronting #crisis #manufacturing

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#am #country #europe #france #highest

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#defeat #france #full #i #must

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#convincing #french #fully #i #majority