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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude towa

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky

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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Change
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Joseph Brodsky
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

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Beauty
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Attitude
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Attitude

In terms of work Ive always had a Bad Attitude in that I wont work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I dont know if thats an Aspergers thing or not, I think its just being reasonable. – Bram Cohen

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Attitude

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good. – Sharon Gless

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Attitude

Having worked with at risk youth… I noticed that when I was intentionally positive by looking beyond their “fog” and to their light they responded with their genius. – Joe Tassinari

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Attitude

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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. – Sir John Robert Seeley

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The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then well see the rising of the moon. – Bobby Sands

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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I didnt know folk music growing up, no. Its something Ive come to study, really, because I think theres so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. – P. J. Harvey

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communication