Robert Frost Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.
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Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
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I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
