"How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail."

-- Dorianne Laux

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“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
“There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House. Â While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the Presidentâ€™s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.”
“Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.”
“Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.”
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.”

Source : "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.
“It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.”
“If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.”
“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”

Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.

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