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Foreign Quotes by Lawrence Venuti
- Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an…
- Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign…
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- The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. — Russell Baker
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the… — Saint Basil
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to… — Sarah Bernhardt
- Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. — Joe Biden