Walt Whitman Quotes
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
Quotes to Explore
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
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When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
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Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.
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I am a seasoned performer.
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Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate in many privations and disappointments.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
