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“If you never budge, don't expect a push.”
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“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”
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“Modesty and dew love the shade.”
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“I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.”
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“Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success”
Source : Song: Under The Sun, Album: Halfway House, 2008
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“It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.”
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“It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.”
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“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”
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“Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.”
Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Be who you are. If you're comfortable leading, you're comfortable. And if you're not, it's OK.”
