Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.
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'Bird and beast and stone and star - we are all one, all one -' murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. 'Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.'
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Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
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Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
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The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
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A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.
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Every fight, honest to say, in this division, at this level, is a toss-up. It's a 50-50 chance.
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
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And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
