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Quotations for the Week of February 8th, 2010

News Links:

Study links excessive Internet use to depression

Pondering the future makes us lean forward

Study: 73% use bank password everywhere

Obama unveils coal, biofuel plans

Leader charged in Ariz. sweat lodge deaths

Ted Turner to get Yellowstone bison

Woodruff backs role of women journalists

Most younger Net users get there wirelessly

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This Week's Quotations:

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American poet, actress, playwright and civil rights activist. She is known for autobiographical novels such as ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’, which was a critical and commercial success.  Here is an interesting quote from Angelou.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

- Maya Angelou  (1928- )

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Henry Miller was an American writer, journalist and painter known for writing novels, which were unique for the mid-1900’s, in that they used a combination of autobiography, philosophical, mystical and social commentary elements and free association and more explicit sexual description. The supreme court of 1961 overturned a lower court ban declaring Miller’s novels to be literature.

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

- Henry Miller  (1891-1980)

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Heine was a German Romantic poet whose lyric poetry was often set to music by such composers as Schumann, Schubert, Strauss, and Wagner.

“I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”

- Heinrich Heine  (1777-1856)

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Born of Swedish parents, the American poet Carl Sandburg had a long and successful career, receiving two Pulitzer Prizes. A high school was dedicated to him in Illinois in 1954. Once he showed up at the school unannounced and without identification. Sandburg was called a bum and thrown out. The embarrassed principal cancelled school for the rest of the day and held an assembly in Sandberg’s honor.

“The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.”

- Carl Sandberg  (1878-1967)

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Florida Scott-Maxwell was a writer, psychologist, playwright and actor. In the age of the Internet, she is best known today for her poignant quotations.

“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.”

- Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979)

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Ray Bradbury is one of America’s most creative and prolific authors. Now in his late 80’s, he continues to write for publication.

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

- Ray Bradbury (1920- )

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