Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
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Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
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Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
