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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.
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That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
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Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.
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I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
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Life and art are not two different things....
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Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
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Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.
