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Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
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Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early years. Dr. King gave his life, really, to the struggle for everyone. And he believed in non-violence. That's what I've tried to do in terms of my life and my work, following the teachings of God.
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I can't protect you from knowledge.
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.
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Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.
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Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
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It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
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Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.
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Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.
