Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes
I would like to die as I have lived disappear among the tundra winds be transformed into birdsong.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
Natasha Trethewey
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
Edgar Wright
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Sallust
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You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
Harbhajan Singh
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In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
Imran Khan
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
Madeleine L'Engle
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
Ramakrishna
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If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.
Randall Jarrell
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We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, And then we'll take it higher.
Eddy Grant
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
Larry Niven