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Jack Gilbert has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration…
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what…
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Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built…
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Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
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I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I…
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't…
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I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
— Mary McGrory
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This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power…
— Barack Obama
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I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing…
— Wesley Clark
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