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“If you’re going to go after the household help, get a ‘Yes’ first.”

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source: Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 17, 2011.

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source: “Why Johnny Can’t Program,” The Huffington Post, September 30, 2010.

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“The end of an Empire is messy at best
And this Empire is ending
Like all the rest”

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source: “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Harps and Angels (Nonesuch, August, 2008).

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“Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us. Every day that we live in harness with the woman whom we no longer love we destroy our power to love and to have the woman whom we merit.”

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source: The Cosmological Eye (New York: New Directions Press, 1969), 154.

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“Nowhere—not on these marshes or in the coves or out along the mudflats—is it a good idea to trivialize the power of the water.”

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source: “Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 40.

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