"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

-- Ann Landers

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“Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.”
“The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.”
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”
“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
“When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'”
“Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.”

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“Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.”

Source : Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press

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