"There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book"

-- Edith Hamilton

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“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.”

Source : "Limited Inc". Book by Jacques Derrida, 1977.
“The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.”
“The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile.”
“We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.”
“I think Elvis Presley will never be solved”

Source : Nick Tosches (2009). “Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll”, p.41, Da Capo Press
“I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.”
“I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.”

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