W. H. Auden Quotes
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
W. H. Auden
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All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, or Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.
H. L. Mencken
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
Larry Wall
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
Hyman G. Rickover
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Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
Prince Charles
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In an ideal world, I'm eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig.
Hannah Bronfman
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I have a habit of walking into any beauty store I pass just to check out what brand they have - since I like to recommend things to friends, I need to know what products are out there.
Hannah Bronfman
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I guess I'm a born ham.
Marta Kristen
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You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.
Anthony Foxx
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
Alton Brown
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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus
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I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.
Sarah Dessen
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian
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We all walk softly away.We would stay and be the nurse butthere are too many of us and we are too worried to help.It is love that walks awayand yet we have terrible mouthsand soft milk hands.We worry with like.We walk away like love.
Anne Sexton
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
Ban Ki-moon
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I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
Marianne Williamson
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Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
W. H. Auden
