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		It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Lowery 
			 
			
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		I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Goodyear 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dale Carnegie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Reece 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Reynolds 
			 
			
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		Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Doug Baldwin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Lynch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bruce Feiler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Jencks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Welch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Lowery 
			 
			
				Camper Van Beethoven