When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Type: Poet Born: May 18, 1048 Death: December 4, 1131 |
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.