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| | Art does matter today because with art I can fight resentment, hatred and cynicism. As an artist I am a warrior.
—Thomas Hirschhorn |
| | For more than half a century he has served as our poet of exile — a man almost without a country, unless the country lies wherever he has landed, in flight from himself.
—William Logan, about Derek Wolcott |
| | There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for.
—Aaron Sorkin |
| | Mother Nature always bats last and she always bats a thousand.
—Thomas Friedman |
| | Hunting animals with high-powered guns could only be defined as sport if both sides were equally armed.
—Dick Cavett |
| | True peace is not merely the absence of tension. It's the presence of justice.
—Martin Luther King |
| | If we are the great innocents in this war, then where did we learn all this evil we practice?
—Chris Abani |
| | We waited in silence as the sun set. The stillness outside seemed the measure of our ignorance The insurgents were coming, and now they were not. They were watching us.
—Dexter Filkins |
| | I agree with a teacher of mine, Howard
Zinn, that war is as objectionable as cannibalism and slavery;
—Alice Walker |
| | The Weather Channel is slowly morphing into the news channel. Local news at 10 p.m. used to be titled, “News, weather and sports.” I fear that for our kids it’s going to be, “Weather, other news and sports.”
—Thomas Friedman |
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