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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. HARBURG

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Leave the atom alone.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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You're paid to stop a bullet.
It's a soldier's job, they say.
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No matter how much I probe and prod
I cannot quite believe in God,
But, oh, I hope to God th...
E. Y. HARBURG

O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG

'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice ...
E. Y. HARBURG

O innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse:To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let...
E. Y. HARBURG

You're paid to stop a bullet.It's a soldier's job, they say.And so you stop your bullet,And then the...
E. Y. HARBURG

No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswe...
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
E. Y. HARBURG Virtue is its own revenge.
E. Y. HARBURN Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come tru...
E.Y. HARBURG Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
E.Y. HARBURG All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
E.Y. HARBURG

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA Y. DAVIS

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
ANGELA Y. DAVIS

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not cre...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family&#...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes be...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER One may, with unyielding determination and stubborn persistence, attain competence in any human ende...
SPENCER Y. VANCE It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of ro...
HANS Y. TAMMEMAGI The employment statistics for workers who are retarded is pessimistic, that is the sad truth. But mo...
GILBERT Y. LEONOR

What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS We had known that the expansion of the glutamine tract within Ataxin-1 probably interfered with norm...
HUDA Y. ZOGHBI Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not...
GEORGI Y. JOHNSON I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can'...
OTIS Y. CHANDLER E.P.A. takes violations of toxic substances laws seriously, and is committed to enforcing those laws...
GRANTA Y. NAKAYAMA Не мистецтво і не наука побудують Україну — а зброя і т...
GEORGE Y. SHEVELOV Картаґена нашої провінційности мусить бути зруйнован�...
GEORGE Y. SHEVELOV За красивими і наскрізь скомпроментованими словами пр...
GEORGE Y. SHEVELOV Совєтськість - тяжка хвороба, для багатьох, може, невиг�...
GEORGE Y. SHEVELOV Perbedaan antara bisa dengan tidak bisa itu sangat sederhana, yaitu habits.
FELIX Y. SIAUW

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS Winning, being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillments of the race in Christ Jesus brin...
JERRY Y. SARKW. By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of s...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Since the beginning, the Fates determined which souls would be born, what kinds of lives they would ...
NICOLE Y. WALTERS We really wanted to pay homage to the older Hollywood movies of the '70s and '80s as opposed to toda...
KALIMA Y. YOUNG

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
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Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET You will always find me behind the line of the Horizon
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up f...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mo...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyo...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

I am I plus my circumstances.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent wh...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the ca...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the h...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the p...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an a...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Law is born from despair of human nature.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

To live is to feel oneself lost
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to l...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Sólo hay una Razón para negar la Obviedad : Resistirse a admitirla ".
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET

Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercive...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

La belleza que atrae rara vez coincide con la belleza que enamora.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of ma...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradi...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be us...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

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