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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
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"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."
"Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely."
"Where they come in the perpetual spirit of giving - the house that love built."
"When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone."
"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community."
"In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community."
"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
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