Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
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A faultless person is one who withdraws from affairs. This must be done with strength.
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
