Walt Whitman Quotes
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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It's going to be a big topic of discussion.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
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Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
