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• 'Two drunken souls trying to save each other, but they can't save themselves.' -- Tom Clancy
• Two swords slashing at each other only sharpen one another.
• Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INTERPRETER: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
• Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
• One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
  Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. -- Anatol Rapopo...
• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
  Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics....