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“Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.”

Wells America Speak Language Achievement Majors North America

“For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”

People Knows World Want Needs Humans I Can Self Language Understanding Human Beings Information Emotional Mines Majors Messages Intellectual Communicate Being Human Evident Emotional Things

Author:Jeff Buckley

“A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.”

Language Majors Difficulty Precise Translations

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.”

“Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.”

Language Responsibility Majors Chiefs Assumption Consideration Utterance

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.”

Choices Language Novel Audience Majors Careful Daily Life

Author:Dave Abrams

“I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?”

Knows Kind Film Language Study Theory Degrees Majors Yeah Posts Greek Prize Latin Irrelevant

Author:Robert Greene

“I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.”

Problem Language Majors Division Major Problems

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.”

Thinking Language Majors Happenings Elsewhere Scottish Wales Dialect Welsh National Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.”

Book States Would Be Reading Language United United States Novel Written Majors Pressure University Spoiled Oxford Great Novels Oxford University

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.”

Language Religious Common Effects Majors Nationalism Common Language Molding

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.”

Children Long Language Students Development Paper Majors Models Mathematical Graduates Journal Connecting Dots Graduate Students Connecting The Dots Mathematical Models Language Development

Author:Steven Pinker

“It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

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