"When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget."

-- Leon Panetta

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“Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.”
“As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.”
“I apologise to people when I need to.”
“I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Donâ€™t insist on your rights, donâ€™t blame each other, donâ€™t judge or condemn each other, donâ€™t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your heartsâ€¦”
“All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.”
“[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.”
“Two main groups like to drop the readymade bombâ€”galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artistâ€™s worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians arenâ€™t interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain.”

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