"Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers."

-- Claude Adrien Helvetius

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“There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.”
“Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?”
“What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?”
“I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.”
“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.”
“Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.”
“We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.”

Source : Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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