After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.


Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
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What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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What remains to be done is intensely investigate these claims.
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My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.
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Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
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Ques eso? Queso?
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How do you love your children?
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?
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What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of di...
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
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Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none.
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He just never missed anything. It starts to wear on you after awhile, but that's what you have to do...
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Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
BOB GELDOF
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What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You ...
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mat...
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While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things...
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What you think of me is none of my business.
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Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
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Certainly much more remains to be found in Laos.
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You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do ...
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What others think about you is none of your business.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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Remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now,
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Their PC business remains really strong.
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Appreciate what you have, because someone else is wishing for it.
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What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
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What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die?
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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When I give I give myself.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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We convince by our presence.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Peace is always beautiful.
WALT WHITMAN
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
WALT WHITMAN
I am large, I contain multitudes
WALT WHITMAN
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
WALT WHITMAN
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN
Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
WALT WHITMAN
Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
WALT WHITMAN
Many a good man I have seen go under.
WALT WHITMAN
These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
WALT WHITMAN
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
WALT WHITMAN
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
WALT WHITMAN
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
WALT WHITMAN
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
WALT WHITMAN
Simplicity is the glory of expression
WALT WHITMAN
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
WALT WHITMAN
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
WALT WHITMAN
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...
WALT WHITMAN