"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

-- William Arthur Ward

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“It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.”
“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.”
“Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.”
“I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.”
“We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.”
“I do have to say when we read certain words being used to describe President Trump - it's never been done. It wasn't done about President Obama. It wasn't done about either President Bush, President Clinton, because people have a certain respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president. And so I am beseeching everybody to cool it down a little bit.”
“It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.”
“Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf

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