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Alexander Pushkin

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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This is too much reality for a Friday.
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Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY
Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
STEVEN GERRARD
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
JAMES BROUGHTON
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people se...
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Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
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Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
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The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bo...
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You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
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When I started doing this stuff in the '70s, a lot of creditors were suppliers who needed [the filer...
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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.
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Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU
As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
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A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN
As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
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Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
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It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
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As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
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A diamond in the rough is worth just as much as a diamond in the clear.
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We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
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The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY
Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
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I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can f...
NATALIE MASSENET
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
LARRY SUMMERS
Our priority is to get much needed aid to those undiscovered communities as soon as possible.
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Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
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WOODY ALLEN
Much-needed victory. We played as one.
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Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Ale...
JULIAN BARNES
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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History teachers help children climb mountains.
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Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
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As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD
As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
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Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
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It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a repro...
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You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
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DEYTH BANGER
It really just confirmed that, as she always said - 'poetry is my first love'.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
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It probably was not getting as much emphasis as it needed to have.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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A promise must never be broken.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
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I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
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When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
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To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
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To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
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A man's home is his wife's castle
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Memory is the thing you forget with
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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
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Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
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Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN
Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE
I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN