"There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip."

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Source : "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

Alice Oswald

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“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1989). “The Art of War”, Pocket
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“Oh I'm sorry - I don't follow football.”
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“The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.”
“Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.”

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