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Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without t.

Bhagavad Gita
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Many molecules are known that interfere with reading, or transcribing, genes' DNA to get RNA. But no one had found a molecule that specifically prevents initiation of the next step, the reading, or translation, of the RNA to build a protein.

Liu Jun
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What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world.

David Adamson
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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.

Havelock Ellis
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen
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[He paused and looked up to make eye contact, expressing sincerity that needed no translation.] When I go out to pitch, I go out to pitch not only for the fans here in Chicago but my fans in Cuba and the Cuban people, ... I represent something bigger than just pitching for one team.

Jose Contreras
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They did the best job they could. Where they could not understand words, phrases, sentences, they left it out or they put 'unintelligible' or they put 'phonetic.' Now the tape is what it is. The translation is what it is.

Victoria Clarke
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Rene Magritte
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak
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BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the _Dies Irae_: Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die. Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pard.

Ambrose Bierce
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Language is a complex beast. At best, machine translation is a reasonable alternative to zero translation.

Don Depalma
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The company came through with about 38% operating margins this quarter, guiding 42% over the next couple of year. That's dramatic translation of top-line revenues to the bottom line.

Joel Sendek
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Dante Alighieri
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I can show you a place where you might feel more comfortable,?? he said. Translation: the.

Black Panther
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Denham
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[Translation: The GOP brass will have to embrace McCain's number one issue -- campaign finance reform -- if he's going to throw his weight behind Bush.] There are a bunch of little reform measures percolating in Congress right now, ... At least some of those will need to pass if we're going to see the McCain and Bush camps unify.

Nancy Gibbs
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Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco
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I'm extremely disappointed, ... The result is a translation of what's going on on the field. I cannot mention one player who had a good day. If we want to think about the playoffs coming up, right now we have to wake up and make sure this thing never happens again.

Peter Nowak
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The translation of this is martial law in the United States.

Irwin Redlener
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A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.

Charles Munch
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Amisha Patel
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We now know in the world today, there are about 2,644 Bible-translation needs in the world left.

Bob Creson
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Stocks are going to be under some pressure over the next six to nine months. Revenue growth is very modest, and that's going to dampen profit margins, as will the currency translation with the stronger dollar.

Harvey Hirschhorn
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I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with Lost in Translation and Rushmore. I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

Will Ferrell
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Jorge says, stepping away from the phone to practice his saxophone during the translation. ''But the first time I listened to his music, I had this feeling he was doing something very contemporary.

Ziggy
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