I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli
When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
Lee Iacocca
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
Sherwood Anderson
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
Sparky Anderson
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
No manager ever won no ballgames.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
Anjelica Huston
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.
Terry Anderson
Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.
Deepak Chopra
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.
Walter Anderson
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