"What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them."

-- Octavio Paz

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“The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive . Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.”
“People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.”
“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.48, Anchor
“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
“If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.”
“You messed with the wrong white girl, motherfucker!â€ Tyler shouted.”
“And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you”
“We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.”

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