Events Quote by Stephen Dunn

“There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.”

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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his…

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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