Richard Wilbur Quotes
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
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The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.
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For us, it is fundamental. We cannot cooperate with an organization that won't renounce violence and be able to negotiate with the other side.
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A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.
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Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO
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Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness.
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Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
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Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.
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He'd been lying to himself all these months. He WAS in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it.
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Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
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Just bought himself a new set of clubs a couple of months
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Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.
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Growing up, I didn't have many comics, but I grew to love these characters through their film and television universes. I've been geeking out about these superheroes ever since I could tie a towel around my neck like a cape and jump off my grandmother's porch.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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At DuPont, I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.
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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
