The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Aristotle

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Michael Phelps

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismarck

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Gus Van Sant

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Ellen DeGeneres

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

HsiTang

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Tiffeny Milbrett

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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