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I would never use the word I have been accused of in some translations, i strongly condemn any suggestion that the word was used by me with the aim of belittling a driver because of his skin color […] Discrimination has no place in F1 or society and I am happy to clarify my thoughts in that respect.

– Nelson Piquet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From my privileged vantage point, I've encountered a lot of extraordinary people with exciting things to say. This is a chance to get those voices heard. We look forward to publishing an unusual mix of new authors, existing works, neglected or under-appreciated masterworks, and translations of people from elsewhere who we think are just too damned brilliant not to be available in English.

– Anthony Bourdain

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The simple answer is that the Church prefers to do translation where the people are, paradigm 3.0 Bible translation is all about church engagement from beginning to end. Dislocated translations delay and dilute the impact to the local communities.

– Bruce Smith

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

– Lewis Lapham

added by anonymous
8 years ago

His mythical stories from Ballybeg reached all corners of the world from Dublin to London to Broadway and onto the silver screen, all of his plays, including' Translations',' Faith Healer',' Philadelphia, Here I Come !' and' Dancing at Lughnasa', will forever form part of the canon of greatness in dramatic writing.

– Prime Minister Enda Kenny

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All of his plays, including' Translations',' Faith Healer',' Philadelphia, Here I Come !' and' Dancing at Lughnasa', will forever form part of the canon of greatness in dramatic writing.

– Prime Minister Enda Kenny

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have some problem to get the translations, complete translations, so I have my interpreter, Mr. Louay Al-Nazer. But the problem is I cannot trust him because he was working at the black site with the CIA and we know him from there.

– Ramzi Binalshibh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The hardest bones of beef itself, and mutton, were made as soft as cheese Source: http://www.evs-translations.com/blog-com/pressure-cooker/

– John Evelyn

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

– Walter Benjamin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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