Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
Valerie Jarrett
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
Immanuel Kant
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
Walter Raleigh
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse - why, then, Who set it there?
Omar Khayyam
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
Piet Mondrian
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You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.
Mike Weir
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I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.
M. M. Mangasarian
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender