#languages

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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It is time for dead languages to be quiet. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

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You who speak languages, you are such liars. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I speak two languages, Body and English. ↗

— Mae West

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Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. ↗

— Mike Thompson

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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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