Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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I choose to express myself.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
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Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair
