Boris Pasternak
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
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