"Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates."

-- Kenneth Arrow

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“I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.”

Source : Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.88, SCB Distributors
“I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.”
“Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.”
“So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.”
“When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.”
“Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems”

Source : "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.
“I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.”
“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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