"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
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"There is no way; we make the road by walking it."
"Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really."
"Try is a noisy way of doing nothing."
"One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration."
"Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law."
"A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity."
"If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at."
"A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place."
"Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life."
"The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work."
"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
"But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things."
"We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life."
"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
"[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now."
"The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me."
"There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way."
"The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons."
"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise."