"Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?"

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

#Democracy Quotes

“I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.”
“I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.”

Source : "The Crime of Conviction" by Chuck Colson, www.christianpost.com. March 18, 2007.
“I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it â€” meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride.”
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”
“One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.”

Source : Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.176, New Riders
“I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.”

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