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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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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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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Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
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When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
