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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
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The plum tree in the yard's so small
It's hardly like a tree at all.
Yet there it is, railed round
To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
Though if it could it would for sure.
There's nothing to be done
It gets too little sun.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv -
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
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