""It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.""

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Source : "The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary", Special Supplement (p. 2047), 1966.

Edith Sitwell

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“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.”

Source : "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.
“Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.”

Source : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated
“The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.”
“There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.”

Source : "Lisa Ling On Tackling Tough Topics". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2012.
“It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.”
“It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.”
“I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.”
“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.”

Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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