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Letter "L" » languages
«Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
adapted, algebra, analytical, constructed, in short, languages, reduced, simplest, simple language, The Art of Reasoning
«There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, achievement, hard-working, overseas experience, flexible, and task-oriented.»
Author: Carol Kleiman
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
Employers, flexible, languages, lighting-up, light up, orient, oriented, orients, overseas, references
«Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets»
Author: Eddy Peters
| About:
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
alleys, borrow, chases, English, English language, Head down, hits, languages, Other languages, pockets, the English
«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.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dictate, increasing, languages, multiply, mute, muted, mutes
«I speak two languages, Body and English.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| About:
Funny,
Language
| Keywords:
body language, English, languages, spoken language
«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, why not just come out and say it?»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
common language, foreign language, foreign languages, languages, make fun, speakers
«People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
businessmen, classified, classify, decent, Diplomats, exotic, futures, Human dignity, human voice, languages, mastery, pronounce, spell, standard, their own language, very much
«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.»
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.»
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