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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.
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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.
