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A word from the poet on his hopeless optimism.
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We should be over war, Collins says.
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If we start doing something about climate change now, it’ll be a lot different from starting five years from now.
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What’s happening now is tribalism.
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Artists are just people who somehow didn’t allow that natural ability in childhood to be killed off.
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A poet is not terribly unhappy that poetry has a small audience.
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“When you’re not writing, there’s an anxiety about whether you will ever write again,” says Collins.
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The joy in writing poetry is being down on your hands and knees with the language.
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Collins’ childhood was filled with poetry and practical jokes.
When has mankind ever been free? Why haven’t other societies created so many of the benefits this young county has brought to mankind? They have opted for control of people […]
The Solar Space Port Inititative The strategy can be seen as the equivalent to an “Apollo” project for renewable energy much like Al Gore has talked about recently. It could […]
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The late Senator Ted Kennedy discussed an education bill that would forgive students loans up to $20,000 in exchange for community involvement.
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We want to try and free ourselves from the forms of discrimination and bigotry which exist in our nation, says Ted Kennedy.
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Two driving forces are behind Kennedy: family and religion.
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A tough mother, and a rabbinical student.
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Time, Rabbi Shmuley says, will be kind to us.
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Rabbi Shmuley has made it his life’s work to fight divorce.
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Rabbi Shmuley prefers authenticity to perfection in a presidential candidate.