"We keep wanting to save those who are……" — Michael Ondaatje

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• When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a… — Mark Twain
• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging… — William Cowper
• "Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what… — Douglas MacArthur
• It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and… — Frank Drake
• Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of… — Simon McKeon
• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began… — Cloris Leachman
• Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same… — John Keats
• Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on… — H. L. Mencken
• Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most… — Matthew Scully

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