William Butler Yeats Quotes
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
William Butler Yeats
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
Malala Yousafzai
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
Ed Koch
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
Dagmara Dominczyk
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
J. Philippe Rushton
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
Laura Mennell
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You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
Kacey Musgraves
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By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!
Esther M. Friesner
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.
Aristotle
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
William Butler Yeats
