"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets   

"If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion."

Brodsky, Joseph on poetry and poets   

"In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a read, commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself."

Brodsky, Joseph on poetry and poets   

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on mind
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

Hughes, Charles Evans on work
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on freedom
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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

Silone, Ignazio on fascism
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on evolution   

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

Castro, Fidel on evolution   

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

Orwell, George on dictators and dictatorship
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"As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. "

Adams, John on uncategorised   

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evolution
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"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten."

Ataturk, Kemal on freedom   

"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."

Adler, Mortimer J. on freedom
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."

Adams, John on evolution   

"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution."

Hoffer, Eric on evolution
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"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on evolution   

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

Wooden, John on sports
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"For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment."

Wooden, John on purpose
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"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

Wooden, John on potential
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"Nothing will work unless you do."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

Wooden, John on perseverance
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

Wooden, John on performance
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

Wooden, John on learning   

"Be prepared and be honest."

Wooden, John on honesty   

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

Wooden, John on fulfillment
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind
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"Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evolution
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"Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out."

Azuela, Mariano on evolution
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on poverty and the poor
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