Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book One, Chapter XIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
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Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book One, Chapter XIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 62
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105763 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
Re: Implementational Portability http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/d10b5da103312c35 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Other quotes, 2019 <br class="br">Source: Interview after the freeskate at Skate Canada 2019, as transcribed by the International Skating Union, published on 28 October 2019 on their official YouTube-Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2guVNCyGL1M.
“I learned to understand their language and to speak it a little.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
The Other World (1657)
Context: I learned to understand their language and to speak it a little. Immediately the news spread throughout the kingdom that two little wild men had been discovered. We were smaller than everybody else because the wilderness had provided us with such bad food. And it was a genetic defect that caused us to have forelimbs that weren't strong enough to support us.
This belief gained strength through repetition despite the priests of the country. They opposed it, saying that it was an awful impiety to believe that not only animals but monsters might be of the same species as they.
“My country is the Portuguese language.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Fernando Pessoa (as Bernardo Soares), in The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Misattributed
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist