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I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew… — Ralph Nader
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can… — Anwar Sadat
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have… — Mo Yan
In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their… — Frederick Lenz
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared… — Ramon Magsaysay
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."… — Simone Weil
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue… — Philip Roth
[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side… — William Kristol
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation… — John Millington Synge
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before… — Alton Brown
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland,… — Herman Gorter
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At… — Herman Gorter
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants… — Herman Gorter
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round… — Samuel Rogers
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants… — David Hockney
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. — Bayard Taylor
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who… — Charles Fort
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman. — H P Lovecraft
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the… — Oskar Kokoschka
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the… — Vladimir Lenin

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