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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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And, even with something of a mother's mind,
And no unworthy aim,
The homely nurse doth all she can
To make her foster child, her inmate man,
Forget the glories he hath known
And that imperial palace whence he came.
William Wordsworth
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
Adam Braun
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Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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People have good and bad days.
Anna Chlumsky
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All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
Adolf Hitler
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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
