e. e. cummings Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
