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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."
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"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."
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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
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"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
Family
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
Poetry
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
Students
"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
Time
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
Poetry
"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
Time
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
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