"It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal."

-- William Ernest Henley

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“Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader”

Source : "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.
“There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.”
“The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.”
“I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.”
“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
“I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.”

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“Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.”
“It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.”

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