"I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using."

-- Thom Gunn

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“We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.”
“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”

Source : Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”
“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”
“When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.”
“I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! Iâ€™m 24 now, so I guess Iâ€™ve been very, very lucky that it doesnâ€™t show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guessâ€¦”
“When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.”
“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

Source : "Are robots hurting job growth?". "March of the Machines" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 13, 2013.

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