"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."

-- Jack Prelutsky

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“I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.”
“Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.”
“It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.”

Source : Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books
“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”

Source : E. Digby Baltzell (2018). “Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification”, p.191, Routledge
“As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.”
“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.”
“If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.”
“The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.”

Source : Genevieve Behrend (2013). “Your Invisible Power: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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