"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

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Source : Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

Don Marquis

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“It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.”
“Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.”
“Politics is the science of urgencies.”
“The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.”

Source : Source: content.time.com
“Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.”

Source : "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
“I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.”
“There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error.”
“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

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