Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. - Donald Hall

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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

Donald Hall

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Absence, Grief, House, Loss, Painful

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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

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Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

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If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Death, Denial, Done, Powerful, Work

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

Baseball, Father, Fathers, Summer, Summers, Things

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Continuing, Desire, Hard Work, Work, Writing

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This is my seventh decade. . . and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again. . . songs with which I have had a great relationship.

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Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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Danica Patrick

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Mary C. Gentile

Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization. " At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.

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Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

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