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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
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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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Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
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I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.
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I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.
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I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.
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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.
