#languages

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#coming #decades #english #i #i believe

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#always #anything #both #business #cultures

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#feelings #games #gestures #internet #land

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. ↗

— Troy Perry

#considerations #context #cultures #different #embraces

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#bag #carry #countries #know #languages

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#corrected #distinction #distinctions #doubt #entitled

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#languages #most #revolution #word