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“If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.”

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Susan Collins is a seasoned United States Senator representing Maine. Known for her moderate stance and bipartisan cooperation, she is considered a rational voice in American politics. more

“Anytime your banner becomes anything other than Jesus Christ you ought to be afraid of Hell. If your banner is “I'm a Calvinist”, if your banner is “I'm a homeschooler”, if your banner is this, that, or anything else, if you're rallying under any other name than Jesus Christ; you're in danger. You are in danger!”

Ifs Jesus Names Christ Hell Danger Ought Jesus Christ Banner Rallying

Author:Paul Washer

“Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.”

People Humans Has Beens Responsibility Practice Childhood Behavior Female Guilt Burden Educational Agents Socializing

Author:Germaine Greer

“Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.”

Men War Path Civilization Ants Impermanence

Book:Inheritance of Loss

Source: Inheritance of Loss

“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”

World Writing Facts Pain Form Literature Creating Originals Ghost Recognition Peculiar Composition Composing Outcast Translators Writing Words

Author:Lydia Davis

“In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too.”

Winning Struggle Sentences Locked Translators

Author:Lydia Davis

“the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.”

Way Language Lonely Confused Climbs Dependent Paradox Pyramids Labyrinth Clauses Translators

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