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- There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that… — Robert Creeley
- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as… — James Madison
- Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. — James Russell Lowell
- The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no… — Richard M. Weaver
- If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson