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Dan Burt
"I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow." --
Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
Dan Burt
#Integrity Quotes
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“I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.”
“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.”
Source : William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”
“Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.”
“It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.”
“I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.”
“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”
“And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.”
“My old coach used to say two points was two points...”
