"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."

-- James Broughton

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“Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.”
“And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”
“When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.”
“More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.”
“Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.”

Source : "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.
“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”

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