"Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”
“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.480
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. â€”Archibald MacLeish”
“I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.”
“I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.”
“Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.”
“Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.”

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