Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.
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Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'
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I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.
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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
