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“Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.”

“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”

“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

“I suspect that the word was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

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"... Assad’s survival—if Saddam Hussein’s murderous rampage in 1991 is any indication—will without a shadow of a doubt translate into hundreds of thousands of Syrian dead, mostly butchered after his vi…"

— Kanan Makiya

Education1949

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"“In literary translations, it is this very articulation of expressions that matters the most to bring home to the readers the full essence of the original text in question."

— Suman Pokhrel

Literature1967

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"The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art."

— William Blake

Art

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"Nothing … nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms — poo…"

— James Branch Cabell

Literature1879–1958

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