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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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I wanna be forever young.

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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The character of our enemies testifies to America's greatness.

-- James D. Miller

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The hope lives on age after age, Earth with its beauty might be won For labor as a heritage, For this has Ireland lost a son.

-- George William Russell

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For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

-- Tzvetan Todorov

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(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (...)

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I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.

-- Sara Blakely

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I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

-- Anne Sullivan

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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

-- Ralph Stanley

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