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  • Marianne Moore Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • William Hazlitt Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Philip James Bailey Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
    Festus
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Bill Cosby 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.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Frank Moore Colby 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.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Ernest Hemingway 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.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Berger 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.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bill Clinton 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.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus Practice is the best of all instructors.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • C. Neil Strait 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.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Leonard Cohen Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 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.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Dylan Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons 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
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • George Orwell 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.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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