I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. - Robert A. Heinlein

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The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

Robert A. Heinlein

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

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[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

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Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

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It is better to copulate than never.

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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.

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We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

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Rita Dove

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

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Georgia Harkness

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

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Mortimer Adler

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

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