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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
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Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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