T. E. Hulme Quotes
My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.
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Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.
