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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
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Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
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Say not, ''I have found the truth,'' but rather, ''I have found a truth.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.
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Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
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