"With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse"

-- W. H. Auden

#Poetry Quotes #Vineyards Quotes #Farming Quotes

“The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.”
“If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?”
“The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.”
“Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.”

Source : Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.116, Random House Group
“I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.”
“The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.”
“Look, sometimes itâ€™s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes itâ€™s not because they've got a broken wing and theyâ€™re hurt and theyâ€™re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend, and you gotta make sure that itâ€™s mended and youâ€™re getting in the way of that right now, okay, because sheâ€™s sensitive and sheâ€™s smart, sheâ€™s artistic. This is a great girl, you gotta be respectful to that. Come on, let me walk you to your car, youâ€™re a better guy than this.”
“Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.”

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