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“Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem To end it all and let who will survive; To find at last all beauty is but dust; That love and sorrow are the very same; That joy is only suffering's sweeter name; And sense is but the synonym of lust. Far better, yea, to me it seems to die; To set glad lips against the lips of Death-- The only thing God gives that comforteth, The only thing we do not find a lie.”
Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”
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“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
Source : 1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.
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“It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.”
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“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.”
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“My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.”
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“Unknown customer, unstated need - that is bleeding edge of innovation!”
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“There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.”
Source : "Bjarne Stroustrup: The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 01, 2007. 
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“A motorcycle is an independent thing.”
Source : "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks 'Sons of Anarchy' and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.
