"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

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Confucius

#Life Quotes #Change Quotes #Clever Quotes

“It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press
“When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others”

Source : Jane Nelsen (1986). “Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships”, Empowering People Books Tapes
“You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.”
“I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.”

Source : BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 23, 2001.
“Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.”
“Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like bullshit, but most of the stories that we've run had that effect on me. We get thousands and thousands of submissions and I don't think we've published a story yet - very few, anyway - where there wasn't something like what Mona Simpson described, where a first sentence or a first page didn't just really command attention.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.”
“One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.”

Source : "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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