"Anyone who says, â€œHereâ€™s my address, write me a poem,â€ deserves something in reply. So Iâ€™ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

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“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.”
“Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.”

Source : Source: irusa.org
“I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.”
“If you develop rules, never have more than ten.”
“The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.”
“Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.”
“Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.”

Source : "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, kvpr.org. April 21, 2017.
“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt”

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