"A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds."

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Source : 'Ars Poetica' (1926)

Archibald MacLeish

#Bird Quotes #Flight Quotes #Should Quotes

“Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2011). “The Culture Struggle”, p.130, Seven Stories Press
“Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.”
“Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.”

Source : Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.37, WaterBrook
“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.”

Source : "Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.
“The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.”

Source : "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2), May 2000.
“Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
“J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.”
“Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.”

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