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“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.”
Source : FaceBook post by Billy Collins from May 31, 2013
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“When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.”
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“The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.”
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“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”
Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
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“You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before.”
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“Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.”
Source : "De-Stressing Through Laughter - 10 Ways It Improves Your Health" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.
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“It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.”
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“The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...”