Socrates Quotes
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces in 1968. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
