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"Some Odes are a bit awkward but some are so touching... Short and lovely or interesting." — Oct 04, 2017 08:15PM
"Some Odes are a bit awkward but some are so touching... Short and lovely or interesting." — Oct 04, 2017 08:15PM
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"I tucked myself in bed last night and started this book with a sleep timer. It was amazing and I think fed a night of good dreams." — Feb 12, 2019 03:34PM
"I tucked myself in bed last night and started this book with a sleep timer. It was amazing and I think fed a night of good dreams." — Feb 12, 2019 03:34PM
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""The Republicans weren't so much a partner in managing the crisis as a symptom of it. In the course of the crisis the GOP had shown itself to be less a party of government than a political vehicle through which conservative white Americans expressed alarm at the earthquakes shaking their world". It's interesting getting retrospective on the financial crisis. He blends foreign affairs & world financial markets well." — Dec 31, 2018 01:34PM
""The Republicans weren't so much a partner in managing the crisis as a symptom of it. In the course of the crisis the GOP had shown itself to be less a party of government than a political vehicle through which conservative white Americans expressed alarm at the earthquakes shaking their world". It's interesting getting retrospective on the financial crisis. He blends foreign affairs & world financial markets well." — Dec 31, 2018 01:34PM
Bayard Taylor wrote his fiancée from California in 1849: I cannot express to thee how I have been charmed with this country. Its pure, cloudless sky; its spring-like airs, always filled with the odor of balmy shrubs and grasses; its vast
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
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