"The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!"

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

#Firsts Quotes #Language Quotes #Bloody Quotes

“There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!”
“The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”

Source : "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”

Source : James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1155, Open Road Media
“The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.”
“It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.”
“I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.”
“I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.”

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