"Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit."

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Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

Stephen Spender

“While pursuing those relations with Russia, which are important - Russia is an important country - it is also important to stand by your friends and allies in Europe, defend your treaty commitment to NATO allies, stand by the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It's not whether we pursue relations with Russia when we need to, but what we're willing to give them in order to have that very, very good relationship that Donald Trump seems to be talking about.”
“Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.”
“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”
“Each of us is our own story, but none of us is only our own story. The arc of my own personal story is inexplicably and intrinsically linked to the story of my parents and the story of my neighbor and the story of the kid that I met one time. All of us are linked in ways that we don't always see. We are never simply ourselves.”

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“Come with me if you want to live!”
“Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.”
“I donâ€™t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.”
“Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?”

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