"Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy."

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Source : Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

Joseph Rodman Drake

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“You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.”
“I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.”
“Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.”
“The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.”

Source : Pauline Oliveros (2010). “Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009”, p.76, Lulu.com
“If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.”

Source : Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster
“Creativity means not copying.”
“The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.”

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