Walt Whitman Quotes
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
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When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the same goals or the same world view as you... It's difficult because a child doesn't know that there's another way. A child doesn't know that there's another place outside of the systems and hierarchies in school.
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I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?
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Tiffin, what
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Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
