"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances."

-- Richard Mentor Johnson

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“We tell each other stories to help each other live. Thatâ€™s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. Thatâ€™s why I went to poetry in the first place, thatâ€™s why I stay with it, thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ll never leave it.”
“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”
“Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.
“We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”
“The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.
“Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.”

Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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