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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
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Secrets find a way out in sleep... It is the place where there is no pretense.
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Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
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Segregation has no place in the education system.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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