Theodore Roethke Quotes
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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Form follows beauty.
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Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.
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A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
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In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.
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The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.
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Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
