William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
Hans Rosling
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
Gary Johnson
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
Dallas Willard
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Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
Camryn Manheim
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Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.
Mary H.K. Choi
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Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.
Chris Stapleton
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These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.
Philip Hone
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
William Butler Yeats
