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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”
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“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
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“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.”
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“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”
Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
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“I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.”
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“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
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“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”
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“There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
