"Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion."

-- Ernie Fletcher

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“Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.”
“The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where the field hasn't gone before. The result -very exciting children's literature and art ... exciting both for the professional and for the intended audience, the children.”
“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”
“Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.”
“I mean, what's eleven million people now days?”
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.”
“And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.”

Source : John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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