“ Life we drank to the dregs and lees;Give us — ah! give us — but Yesterday! ”
- Austin Dobson- Copy
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“ At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
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“ An evil, that in any age, especially in these dregs of time wherein we live, cannot sufficiently be inveighed against. ”
- George Whitefield- Copy
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“ Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ”
- James A. Baldwin- Copy
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“ We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. ”
- Sally Ride- Copy
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“ Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? ”
- Stephen Ambrose- Copy
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“ Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
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“ A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ What's an artist, but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around? ”
- William Gaddis- Copy
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“ It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ”
- Saint Augustine- Copy
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“ Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? ”
- William Gaddis- Copy
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