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" A dollar saved is a quarter earned. "
Dollar
Saved
Quarter
" A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. "
Landscape
Place
Hope
" A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. "
Area
Worse
Changing
" A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. "
University
Interest
Students
" Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! "
Hard
Game
Fun
" Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. "
Open
Parent
Time
" Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. "
Gone
Money
Rich
" Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. "
Happen
Intelligence
Genius
" It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. "
Men
Courage
Generation
" Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. "
Young
Excitement
Love
" Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. "
Modern Art
Art
Better
" Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. "
Nothing
Character
Need
" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
Truth
Poetry
Way
" The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. "
World
Escape
Entrance
" The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. "
Fool
Constitution
American
" The day will happen whether or not you get up. "
Happen
Get
Day
" The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. "
Deserve
Honest
Opinion
" There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. "
Sobriety
Moderation
Wrong
" What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. "
More
Feel
Him
" Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. "
Sponge
Milk
Sugar
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "
Enough
Suffering
You
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