"We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name."

-- Dana Gioia

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“We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics
“Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.”
“I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.”
“Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me”
“I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.”
“And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.”

Source : "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.
“Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.”
“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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