"For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me."

-- Anne Fadiman

#People Quotes #Literature Quotes #Way Quotes

“Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem-economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe could lead to such an outcome.”
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

Source : "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.
“I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“... no effort based on love is wasted.”
“Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.”
“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
“The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have the same appetite for gossip, but now its acquisition is even easier than grabbing sugary and fatty foods off a supermarket shelf. And look where that got us. When you watch people in public desperately punching away at their machines, it's hard not to think of addictions.”

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