"A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.”
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
“Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your dream, follow your heart, follow your passion, run your own race and believe in yourself. I think anybody who wants to succeed has to have passion. My love for this sport, you can't instill it in someone else.”
“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.350
“I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.”

Source : "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”
“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone elseâ€™s house.”
“If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.”

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