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Teaching people to read primers and Bibles does not produce authors; it produces readers. Printing presses and publishing houses produce authors. This rule is no different today for nonliterate languages than it was in late medieval times in Europe.

— H. Russell Bernard

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I see nothing useful or charming about remaining monolingual .. if that results in being shut out of the national economy.

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