"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."

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“I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.”

Source : Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”
“All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.”
“[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo.”
“Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degreÂ s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.”

Source : 1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.
“The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.”
“Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”
“The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency on foreign oil, will come from energy efficiency and conservation in the next 20 years. Make no doubt about it. That's where everybody who has really thought about the problem thinks the biggest gains can be and should be.”

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