"The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us alongÂ—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.25, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

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“The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.”
“The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.”
“In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.”
“I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world”
“Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you â€” and give it to you.”
“In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”

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