Quotes
Authors
Stanley Kunitz

"When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life."

-- Stanley Kunitz

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“So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.”
“I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.”
“..."And then we played Ping-Pongâ€”â€ â€œNot pool? I always assumed he was a billiards manâ€”I mean, itâ€™s so handy the way he keeps a stick up hisâ€””
“Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.”
“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.”

Source : "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 134 - 135), 1957.
“Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.”
“We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.”
“We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.”

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