William Butler Yeats Quotes
While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy.
William Butler Yeats
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
Vin Diesel
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
Naftali Bennett
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
Taya Kyle
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Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
Michael Scott
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317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.
G. H. Hardy
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse
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The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.
Ed Crane
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances McDormand
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While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy.
William Butler Yeats
