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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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Kingston
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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