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«. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.»
Author: David N. Dinkins
(Mayor, Politician)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, City of New York, decent, face value, languages, neighborhoods, The Faces, The Names
«Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music»
Author: Frank Capra
(Film Director)
| About:
Mathematics,
Movies,
Music
| Keywords:
film, languages, Other Two, The Other Two, The three
«Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.»
Author: Jef I. Richards
| About:
Advertising,
Language
| Keywords:
audience, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, interpreters, languages, practitioner, practitioners, target, unlike
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Comedy,
Funny,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
abroad, Americans, American language, despite, discover, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, for the first time, languages, progress, shocked, spoken language, The Last, travel
«India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Arabs, Buddha, communities, embodied, embodies, embodying, Europe, India, languages, Sanskrit, self government, the Buddha, village
«He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
languages
«Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
enables, interpreter, languages, repeating
«And among His Signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth, and the variations In your languages And your colors; verily In that are Signs For those who know»
Author: quran
| About:
Colors,
Earth,
Heaven,
Language,
Religion
| Keywords:
languages, sign language, The Creation, The Variations, variation, variations, verily
«I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations»
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