“ Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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“ I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. ”
- Yvonne Craig- Copy
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“ It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts. ”
- Robert Mueller- Copy
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“ He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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“ Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
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“ You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. ”
- Harrold Hill- Copy
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“ Through faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, otherwise we are scattered abroad in multiplicity. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
- 120
“ I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
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“ I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. ”
- Bill Hirst- Copy
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“ As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Do not cultivate too much attachment to things of the world, which appeal to carnal desires and sensual thirsts. A moment comes when you have to depart empty-handed, leaving all that you have laboriously collected and proudly called your own. ”
- Sai Baba- Copy
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“ The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness… I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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“ Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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“ I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. ”
- Yvonne Craig- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts. ”
- Robert Mueller- Copy
- 3.8K
“ He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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