"We would give anything for what we have."

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Source : Tony Hoagland (1998). “Donkey Gospel: Poems”, Graywolf Press

Tony Hoagland

“And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.”

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“Love is talkative passion.”
“Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.”
“The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority”
“Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.”

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