Alan Seeger Quotes
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
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In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
