"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.”
“The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.”
“The team is an extension of the coach.”
“Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”
“Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".”
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.4, Feminist Press at CUNY
“My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.”

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