"Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion."

-- Michael Erard

#Fashion Quotes #Memories Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.”
“People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.”
“You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.”
“When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.”
“Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]”
“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”
“Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.”
“Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university”

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