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• "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Kings, Mean

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 197), 1998.

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• He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.

  Harry Chapin

  Sky, Dancing, Laughing

  Song: Shooting Star, 1974

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• Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Aphorism, Prose

  Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz,'The Literature Professors' Literature Professor', in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall1978.

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• We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Strong, Hard Work

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• The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Hemisphere, Alphabet

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.74, 1988.

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• A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

  John Allen Paulos

  Son, Boys, Roman Numerals

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage

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• Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

  Ricardo Semler

  Effort, Growth, Profit

  "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.

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• I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Views, Creating

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• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

  Alexander Stille

  Media, Political, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just for, you know, myself or the children, but the parents, the family finances, the money that you could be putting toward retirement you're using to buy tennis shoes and restring rackets and tennis lessons. So if you don't make it, then you may never retire. It's definitely a lot of risk.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Retirement, Children

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• People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Thinking, People, Sensual

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• I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

  Charlotte Ronson

  Design, Able, Way

  "Charlotte Ronson, Beauty Mogul". Interview with Sarah Howard, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2011.

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• My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

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• I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Ideas, I Realized, Studios

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• Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

  Lucille Clifton

  Intelligence, Intuition, Doe

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• There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Play, Black

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.

  David Bezmozgis

  Believe, Way, Lines

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

  Joan Larkin

  Trying, Firsts, Sound

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Falling In Love, Travel, Real

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Distance, Cat

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• I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

  Martin Luther

  Might, Notion, Mistaken

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Irony, Journalism

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

  Kevin Spacey

  Powerful, Communication, Skills

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