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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. ↗

— Paul Valery

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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here. ↗

— Irving Ravetch

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It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

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The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen. ↗

— Amy Ray

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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. ↗

— Herbert Read

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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