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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

-- John Masefield

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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ()A good novel editor is invisible.

-- Terri Windling

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I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

-- Rihanna

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Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

-- Caroline Kennedy

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

-- George Burns

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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

-- Harry S Truman

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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

-- Pope Paul VI

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If on the other hand we found even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not date to put it beyond the pale.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

-- Cicero

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