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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Edgar Guest

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1881 - August 5, 1959

Topics

MyselfEyeLookGoWantAlways

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

Jill Soloway

VisionI AmThinkLookNowMore

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Menachem Begin

SecurityIsraelMustThreatenedSome

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Robert Reich

BetterEmployeesRightWorkingJust

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Maureen Dowd

GamePatriotMoreRepublicanShift

I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

Jeff Kinney

WorkLiveEmployeesYouHousePlace

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

Michael Greger

PositiveStressResilienceHealthy

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

Toni Collette

WrongTroubleAdmitting

I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.

Tom Steyer

WorkBusinessTimeBestExperience

I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

Michael Ontkean

GearsBusShowOffJustChanged

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

Lois Frankel

CollegeStudentStatus QuoNeverGot

Being able to run an NBA team at 19 is not easy.

Jason Kidd

TeamEasyRunNBABeingAble

Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.

Claire Messud

LifePeopleNightBookThinkPlace

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