"Poems are difficult to silence."

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Source : "The Answer Man" by Stephen Greenblatt, www.newyorker.com. August 8, 2011.

Stephen Greenblatt

#Silence Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.”
“A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.”

Source : Earl Warren (1972). “A Republic, If You Can Keep It. -”
“It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.”
“In the faces of men and women, I see God.”
“A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.”
“The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.”
“I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.”
“Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.”

Source : "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.

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