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My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. -- Nelly Sachs
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. -- Billy Collins
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. -- James Merrill
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. -- Gail Simmons
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language. -- Juliana Hatfield
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. -- Jane Asher
I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more. -- Duffy
I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives. -- Teju Cole
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work. -- Paul Bloom
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. -- George Eliot
Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business. -- Ivan Stoikov

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