Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
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As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.
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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.
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Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
