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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and o

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. – Seamus Heaney

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But that citizens perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. – Seamus Heaney

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Trust
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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. – David Hockney

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Even though Im retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen. – Stephen Baker

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We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. Its an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch peoples lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that. – Roma Downey

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You have to be positive, and Im not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. – Sheryl Swoopes

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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – Anon.

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. – Erich Fromm

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