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209 quotes by 192 authors

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and… — Natasha Mayers
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.… — Brian Stableford
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. — Noam Chomsky
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace… — Ralph Bunche
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Creativity is discontent translated into arts. — Eric Hoffer
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating… — Lin Yutang
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I… — June Jordan
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. — Mahatma Gandhi
We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and… — Merlin Olsen
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received… — Cesar Milstein
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into… — Phil McGraw
The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I… — Shusha Guppy
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. — Jane Roberts

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