"I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected."

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Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.

M. H. Abrams

#Thinking Quotes #Desperation Quotes

“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3”, p.363, Tor Australia
“There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.”

Source : "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.
“One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.”

Source : Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
“When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them.”
“You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.”
“I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.”
“We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted to just find a different way [for Tales of Halloween]. And being that unity was what the whole spirit of the project was - unity and friendship and community.”
“We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward.”

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