Walt Whitman Quotes
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
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I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
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It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
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Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .
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The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus
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O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!
