"A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb."

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Source : Joseph Warren Beach (1925). “Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles”

Joseph Beach

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“If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show and just chat in a relaxed way about killing people like Julian Assange. They're joking, but at the same time, it's a vicious kind of rhetoric. The degree of enmity and the show of power and force against Assange must have terrified him. He was prepared to be paranoid when he was young - when nobody was actually after him. But this easy kind of vitriol and hatred that you now see as part of common discourse, it's become part and parcel of our everyday chatter.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.”
“In search of some rest, in search of a break From a life of tests where something's always at stake Where something's always so far What about my broken car? What about my life so far? What about my dream?”
“Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.”
“Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.”
“Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.”

Source : "Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.
“I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.”
“I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.”

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