"Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching."

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Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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“A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.”
“In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.”
“Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.”
“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.”

Source : Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing (1886). “The Family: An Historical and Social Study”
“I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.”
“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.”
“I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.”

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