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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act" »Dante Alighieri
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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." »Robert Frost
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?" »Dante Alighieri
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"The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.)" »Latin Proverb
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)" »Mark Twain
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"il faut laisser du temps au temps
(you have to give time time - approximate translation)" »Francois Mitterand
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action." »Eric Hoffer
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