Walt Whitman Quotes
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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If I'm not mistaken, that relationship of Barack Obama with Mr.Bill Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more.
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The first thing he said was no question you can do the job. But would you like living there?
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I love female singer-songwriters!
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I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
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Deal with the small before it becomes large.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
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There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
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The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.
