Pablo Neruda Quotes
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Nobody likes feeling like an outsider, so it's intimidating for young girls to give STEM a try when they look into STEM clubs/classes and see a room full of boys.
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Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
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It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"
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There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards - women and youth.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
