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“Pop art is for everyone.”
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“Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you grÃeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, lÃke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wÃll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's sprÃngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It Ãs the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.”
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“I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.”
Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016. 
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“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
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“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
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“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”
Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”
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“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
