"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
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"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.“
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"Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."
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-John Donne
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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