"Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.”
“Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.”

Source : "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.
“There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.”
“The secret of my success is my hairspray.”
“The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.”

Source : William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.37
“If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it could actually answer the question. You could ask a real question and get an answer as if you were talking to a person who read all those millions and billions of pages, understood them, and synthesized all that information.”
“God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.”

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