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Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#communicated #communication #experiences #other #poetry

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#billionaires #estimates #i #i think #increase

Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there’s nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#hegel #art

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#bring #care #child #child care #fortunate

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#because #father #how #i #inequality

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#had #help #i #like #mum