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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that…

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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was…
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…
If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is…
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and…
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of…
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those…
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have…
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who…
Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make…
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you…
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre
As humans we speak one language... — Avril Lavigne
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one… — Sathya Sai Baba
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how… — Art Linkletter
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other… — Alma Guillermoprieto
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. — Mark Pagel

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