"To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past."
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"The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean."
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"Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good poem is doing a lot of work emotionally and a lot of work intellectually. That means durable poetry can help us think about complexity, can help us resist easy answers and help us step back. And it can help us sometimes calm down, and sometimes it can help us stay upset."
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"Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition."
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"The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are."
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"You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!""
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"I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means."
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"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting."
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"I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it."
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"I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass."
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"Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer."
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"The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature."
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"Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon."
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?"
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"Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise."
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"I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into a lot of different configurations and venues. I play public and private performances and it has served me well. And I've been fortunate to work in Europe and Asia as well as The US. So for those who have not attended my shows, it doesn't mean I'm not performing."
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"Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time."
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"Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself."
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"Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going."
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"When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there."
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