A Quote by Fannie Hurst

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

Fannie Hurst

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Fannie Hurst
American - Novelist
October 19, 1885 - February 23, 1968

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

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Zubin Mehta

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Amos Oz

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Mitch Hedberg

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.

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