Anne Douglas Sedgwick Quotes
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Vachel Lindsay
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
Nate Lowman
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.
Andrew Breitbart
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The language of truth is simple.
Euripides
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I would rather create a precedent than find one.
William O. Douglas
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Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'
Minnie Pearl
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The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
Rebecca Traister
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But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.
Thomas Carlyle
