Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
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In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
