Quote by May Sarton
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, amb

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best — out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. – May Sarton

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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

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Gardens
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton

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gardening
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far. – Studs Terkel

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The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. – Anon.

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. – George Eliot

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Ive always been very zealous about not invading other peoples private spaces. – Peter Jennings

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Privacy

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – Robert H. Schuller

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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. – William Blake

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When you have a background in combat sports, people think youre this martial arts expert, but really Im just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself. – Rick Yune

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. – Rob Sheffield

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