Walt Whitman Quotes
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
Quotes to Explore
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
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The ball is in the court of the two principals. There is basically four options they can take a look at.
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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles...
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I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
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The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
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To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
