Carl Rakosi quotes
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“At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.”
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“I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.”
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“... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.”
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Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.”
Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.240, University of Chicago Press
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