"A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale."

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Source : John Ciardi (1984). “Selected poems”, Univ of Arkansas Pr

John Ciardi

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“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”

Source : William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424
“All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.”
“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”
“I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.”
“I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.”
“The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedomâ€¦ the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.”

Source : Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics
“After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.”
“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Source : Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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