Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Blind as I was, I tried to get outAs the carriage fell in the ditch,And was caught in the wheels and killed.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.
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Blind as I was, I tried to get outAs the carriage fell in the ditch,And was caught in the wheels and killed.
