"You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime."

-- Martin Dempsey

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“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”
“Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.”
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
“My first poem was a bolt from the blue â€¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. â€¦ it filled me with soul satisfying joy”

Source : "The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams" by William Carlos Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., 1951.
“I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“We need realism to deal with reality.”

Source : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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