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“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.”
Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.10, Wesleyan University Press
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“Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.”
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“I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.”
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“For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.”
Source : "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
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“Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.”
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“Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.”
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“Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.”
Source : "A Flower of a Day". Poem by Dinah Maria Mulock, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. 1866.
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“If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.”
Source : Source: www.cnn.com