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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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Conformity & Nonconformity
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Conformity, humility, acceptance… with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. – Robert Lindner

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? – David Bohm

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn

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Microsoft isnt evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. – Linus Torvalds

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Youre always going to have extremists in every religion. – King Abdullah II

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Religion

If you want to build a ship, dont drum up people to collect wood and dont assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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work