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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#becomes #die #innocent #old #question

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#does #each #experience #innocent #learn

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#coach #even #family #go #had

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

#consciousness #knowable #limits #out #science

It can get a bit boring working on accents. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#bit #boring #get #working

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#also #betrayed #birth #enemy #foreign

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. ↗

— John Sununu

#deduction #great #incentive #interests #loophole

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#katrina #percent #some #victims