Adelaide Crapsey Quotes
The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
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Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.
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Lord of humankind.
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
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To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?
