Emily Dickinson Quotes
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I can say my experience is quite the opposite. Employees are so appreciative of these accommodations that they outperform their coworkers and are less likely to be poached by the competition.
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Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
