#languages

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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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. ↗

— Carey Williams

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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. ↗

— Frank Capra

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Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew. ↗

— James Frank

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Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. ↗

— Anne Rice

#ancient #beginning #greek #i #i am

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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