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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Like Life
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He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

Think Write Talent
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Love Prelude Sorrow Headache
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

About Better Comfort Cost
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Became Because England Industrial
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Crucial Enough Even Ever
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

About Chosen Citizens Competence
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Forward Show Dream
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

Business Most Persons Respected
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Capacity Extraordinary Leaders Occasion
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

Availability Biggest Corporation Good
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Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
Clearly Healthcare Important Sector
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

Accepting Always Any Before
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Am Best Company Compare
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Ability Also Great Great Leader
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

Call Gaga Know Lady
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Always Any Concise Enjoyed
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

Am Behind Designer Excited
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I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

Away Bill Bill Gates Enormous
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

Am Believes Call Collect
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I have always focused on the bottom line.

Always Bottom Bottom Line Focused
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

About Artistry Back Bringing
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
Big Big Responsibility Bring Doctors
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A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

Appeals Because Being Enjoy
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The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Any Corporation Followers Future
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