#languages

Languages are true analytical methods. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. ↗

— Jet Li

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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

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I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

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