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Wystan Hugh Auden has 321 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate…
— Jack Welch
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I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
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Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number.…
— Clare Boothe Luce
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[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.
— Frank Sinatra
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The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you…
— Sylvia Plath
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In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right…
— Louis L'Amour
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Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided…
— Daniel Tammet
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