"I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away."

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Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf

Edward Hirsch

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“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.”

Source : Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
“It's easy to lose our way when we lose our why.”
“Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.”
“I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.”
“I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”
“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”

Source : "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.
“I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.

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