Dick Pound Quotes
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
Dick Pound
Quotes to Explore
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
Kate Thompson
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
Carli Lloyd
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
Ted Cruz
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. Hayakawa
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Pat Conroy
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
Mary Leakey
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I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.
Daniel Humm
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
Dick Pound