"A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain."

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“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

“When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.”

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

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"Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's to speak in Turkish."

— Daniel Radcliffe

Entertainment1860–1933

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"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists…"

— James Callaghan

Politics1956–2005

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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."

— Denis Diderot

Philosophy1713–1784

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"I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the autho…"

— Kurt Vonnegut

Literature1922–2007

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