He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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