"Poetry fettered fetters the human race."

-- William Blake

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“Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.”
“The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.”

Source : Maria Shriver (2003). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, p.92, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I donâ€™t like things that are average, or normal. I care if I have the best â€“ in the world about that - just wanting that great light that everybody looks at and goes â€˜Ahhhâ€™. I feel like thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve found in my partner.”
“An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.”
“It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.”
“Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.”
“When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.”

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