Emily Dickinson Quotes
Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
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We're inspired by groups who always try to change and get better.
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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
