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All Quotes Collection
"I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian."
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"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested."
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"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective."
12
"Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation."
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"The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields."
15
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
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"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time,
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"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
50
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
60
"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."
41
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
55
"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world."
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"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
72
"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
54
"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."
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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
56
"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."
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"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."
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"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."
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"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."
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"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
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"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."
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"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong."
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