At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Author: Paul Muldoon

Author: Paul Muldoon

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I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothin

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Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a per

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I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive

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In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate cha

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Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I

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As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the hea

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No matter what you call him...we all pray to the same source

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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

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How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

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We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin

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Tell the children the truth.

Author: Bob Marley
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I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men.

Author: Victoria Aveyard
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Author: Richard Rohr
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In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me

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Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

Author: Janet Skeslien Charles
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Just words of mercy or touches of kindness can take a sad heart into singing Jesus love me

Author: John M. Sheehan
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Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making

Author: John Sculley
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I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

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Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terr

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Your beauty is tragic.It is the sweetest sin,Heaven ever created!

Author: Shillpi S Banerrji
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I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably

Author: Dodie Smith
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One of the highest emotions is that of Gratitude… Wherever you are, offer the expression of your awa

Author: Susan Barbara Apollon
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people a

Author: Jack Horner
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If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have

Author: Jennifer Silverwood
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Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

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In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great.

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Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Author: Marie Howe
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JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise e

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The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such

Author: David McGee
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In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and ch

Author: Aldous Huxley
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Such things happen.

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What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in stan

Author: Megan McKenna
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Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Author: Romain Gary
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He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt

Author: Jonathan Lethem
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We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

Author: Robert Moor
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Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

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It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attai

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinkin

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I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The

Author: Hayley Atwell
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Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Author: Albert-László Barabási
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Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the

Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Author: William Kamkwamba
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Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

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I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of

Author: C.S. Lewis
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You can have a better tomorrow if you don't stop thinking about yesterday

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Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at eac

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I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my

Author: Kristine K. Stevens
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Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Author: Syd Moore
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Leaders start with the positive, always believing the best first.

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I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be

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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and g

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I think diet plays an important role before any beauty and skincare regime. Taking care of what you

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You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is f

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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

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Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry

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…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to th

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Writing is dreaming for me, and I can dream most anywhere.

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We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.

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Doubt is a result of more than one internal voice giving differing and contradicting instructions an

Author: Archibald Marwizi
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It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire

Author: Suzanne Collins
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This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic,

Author: Erin Morgenstern
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Author: A.A. Milne
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Psychological abuse is.. the sustained, repetitive, inappropriate behavior which damages or substant

Author: Kieran O'Hagan
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We are all part of something magnificent.

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A strong soul recovers from any suffering.

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So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander

Author: Ally Condie
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Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

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It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘w

Author: Stephen King
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We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theorie

Author: John D. Barrow
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I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Author: David O. Selznick
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I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.

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EXAMPLES OF TOLERANCE 1Long and successful married life means tolerating hell of nuisance of each ot

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This he had noticed while doing his military service back in Turkey. When more than three people sle

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Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may b

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First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not t

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Life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Author: Christopher Marlowe
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Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.

Author: K. Chrisbacher
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If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I shall tell you about God once you've reached your imaginary heaven. Then, give me a call.

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I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just get

Author: Sylvester Stallone
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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to

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Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character. Thanks to all su

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If I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.

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Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 af

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Enjoy life, even in the most chaotic, hectic moments. Take time to breathe. Take time to consider wh

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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

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Someday you shall meet someoneWho's gonna look at you in awe-Flying high, wings all spread,And wonde

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I loved him to death. Then I came to realization with how arrogant he was and instead of falling out

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Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solelyfrom my own ambition and ha

Author: T.S. Tate
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

Author: Ben Aaronovitch
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Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life.

Author: Debasish Mridha