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		It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Seamus Heaney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Braun 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances Beinecke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Kingsbury 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Spector 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Olson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bahman Ghobadi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madison Marlow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is such a problem in the time it takes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harrison Birtwistle