"It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows."

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Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

William Empson

“I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed”
“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”
“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?”
“We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30
“I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.”
“If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.”

Source : Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber
“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”
“One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.”

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