Quotes with two-and-twenty

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  • Richard Nixon For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • T. S. Eliot For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Updike For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • Paul Goodman For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill McCartney For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Beah Richards For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Beth Ditto For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Al Goldstein For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bo Burnham For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bell Hooks For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry McGee For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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