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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

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Vacant heart and hand and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

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The revolution will not be televised!

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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His soul dropped down from heaven. Thank you, said Lazarus,...

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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast...

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Just once I knew what life was for.

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

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The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies...

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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it....

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We laugh and we touch. I promise you love. Time will not take away that.

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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed?...

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Your old skin puckering, your lungs' breath Grown baby short as you looked up last...

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