Carolyn Kizer Quotes
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Longer than there've been fishes in the oceanHigher than any bird ever flew.Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens,I've been in love with you.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,-if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!
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The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
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Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.
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I always wanted to have many friends, unfortunately, friends are formed with years, and not everybody know how to respond as a friend.3
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Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
