"It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,"

-- Anne Carson

“Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.”
“We have our own brains.”

Source : "Musharraf to West: 'We have our own brains'" by Becky Anderson, Barry Neild and Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2008.
“The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world 'Cause it's just ..... crazy - you know that it is”
“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain â€“ and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

Source : Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.”
“there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.”
“My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.”

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