Nothing exists without its opposite.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Gale Norton

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

June Jordan

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Nelly

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

George Herbert

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

David Cassidy

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Chuck Palahniuk