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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face…

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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and…
From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building…
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…
The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come,…
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers…
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a…
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked…
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to…
A pretty move, for the love of God.

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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to… — Newton D. Baker
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country,… — Benjamin Franklin
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour. — Bel Kaufman
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread. — Austin O'Malley
The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant… — Joel Fuhrman
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy de Gourmont
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by… — Marc Chagall
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it… — Charles Spurgeon

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