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Barbara Ehrenreich : There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Ben Jonson : " One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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George F Hoar : " The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Brady : " He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Robert H Jackson : " Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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William H Johnsen : " Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Ralph Waldo Emerson : " The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Russell (Wayne) Baker : " Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Louis Vermeil : " The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Njabulo Ndebele : " The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Edwin Abbot : " Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language — except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of their Mothers and Nurses — and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science. Already methinks I discern a weakness in the grasp of mathematical truth at the present time as compared with the more robust intellect of our ancestors three hundred years ago. " # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all." # Effort # Success # Business

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." # Murder # Cleverness # History and Historians

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?" # World # Age and Aging # Love

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?" # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere." # Drugs # Growth # Life and Living

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies." # Pregnancy # Smoking # Love

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups." # Men and Women # Conversation # Freedom

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia." # Exercise

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally -- as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing -- if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops." # Famine # Relationships # Food and Eating

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang." # Feminism # Pornography # Men and Women

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