"We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."

-- John F. Kennedy

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“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.”
“Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.”
“Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.”
“Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.”
“There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.”
“Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”

Source : "Rise to Your Own Occasion: 7 Essential Practices of Brilliant Women" by Jami Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2014.
“I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.”
“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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