Harvey Penick Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
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Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
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The worst storms were the ones that changed you. The ones you remembered not for how bad they objectively were, but for how much damage they did to your own world. Banners, planted in memory.
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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
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Simple people brought their bodies and shared their scanty bread with the artists. Kirchner learned the course of life again in their houses.
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Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.
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The woods are full of long drivers.
