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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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And when she was finished they laid her in earth
Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
How much pain it took to make her as light as that!Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo -
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
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Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
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Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
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Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.
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Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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