The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. - Charles Simic

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There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

Charles Simic

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

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He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

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We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.

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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

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I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

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Jeffrey Kluger

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

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You need to make relationships to help you.

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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

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