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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

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Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language.
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Jesus Know Language Many People Speak
People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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Ever People War Result Sunday Today
Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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Continue Cultural Economic Member Political Practice Psychological Seen
There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Find Nation Nom Way Survive Unity World
I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.
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Another Fiction Good Novel People Problem Problem Region Similar Writing
So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.
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Affect Being Bible History Itself Live Reality Talk Translation
They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.
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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.
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Began Character Describe Group Language Problem
The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.
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Being Bible Ciuntrym Integral Function Look Read Thousand Translation Way World
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?
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Away Continent Corner Country Million Soul Wind
The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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Bible Country Effect Original Raed Translation
The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
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Country Culture Language Phenomenon Power Problem Relationship
I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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Connect Listen Meaningful More People Try
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.
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