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/ page 679 of 1205 /All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.
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Humour seems to follow me around in my poems. I think if I'd been around to beat Wordsworth to those daffodils, I'd have written of how they played havoc with my hayfever!
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When you dream, go to the edges, run for the blurred backdrops for they are the cheap curtains of your subconscious mind, and you will find that your nightmares are a half an inch thick.
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After all, life is a half rhyme of laugh.
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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
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If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs?
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
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Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
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Great twentieth century: sputnik century: what an angst is in you, what wide perplexity! You are a good century and a century of the pit, cannibal century to the ideas you beget, century of the angry young men's target.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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When I grow up, I want to be a peacemaker. My biggest role model for this is Jimmy Carter, who has been a wonderful peanut farmer, politician, and peacemaker... I call him the 'perfect hero.'
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“. . .we must remember to play after every storm and to celebrate the gift of life as we have it, or else life becomes a task, rather than a gift. We must always listen to the song in our heart, and share that song with others.”
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"Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future."
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"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
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