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— Benjamin Jowett"All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic."
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Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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