Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
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Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.
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Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.
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Our virtues are voluntary, and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind, it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
