Quote by Archibald MacLeish
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life wh

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. – Archibald MacLeish

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

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USA Patriotic
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. – Benjamin Franklin

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Time takes away the grief of men. – Desiderius Erasmus

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If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. – Charles Bukowski

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