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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made… — Dave Barry
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign… — Yao Ming
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Unknown Author
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of… — Akira Kurosawa
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,… — Maureen Forrester

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