"What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best."

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.”
“We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
“My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.”
“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.”

Source : "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
“I was very productive as a senator for my state.”
“If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.”

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