"You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children."

-- Anne Stevenson

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“When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.”
“We determine our Destination by our priorities.”
“Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.”
“When things are going good they just keep going good.”
“When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.”

Source : "Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster Gets a Devil of a Storyline". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.
“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.”
“It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.”

Source : George Sarton (2012). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.9, Courier Corporation
“Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.”

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