"The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible."

-- Michael Erard

#Common Quotes #Language Quotes #Talent Quotes

“I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.”
“before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.”
“Old age is second childhood.”

Source : Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.
“Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.”
“I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.”
“I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.”
“The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragileâ€”it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.”

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