William Everson Quotes
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
Quotes to Explore
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A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
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It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.
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"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris and the French in the 90s, and through these encounters, discovers herself.
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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.
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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
