"Forever is composed of nows."
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"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."
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"find your eternity in each moment"
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"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
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"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
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"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create."
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"Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet."
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"What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?"
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"Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody."
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"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world."
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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
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"Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them."
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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
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"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
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"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
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"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
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"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
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