Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?
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But you know he'll always keep movin';You know he's never gonna stop movin.Cus he's rollin',He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'.The sun is shinin' it's a new morning.You're goin',You're goin' home.
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A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
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I like to look effortless, so I just accentuate my favorite features.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
