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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

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They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"— and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.

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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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William Stafford
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Born: January 17, 1914
Died: August 28, 1993 (aged 79)
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