Vachel Lindsay Quotes
Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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Acting's boring.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hope for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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τὸ φρικωδέστατον οὖν τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς͵ ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν͵ ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν͵ ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ͵ τόθ΄ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν.
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I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
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Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
