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Famous and Not-so-Famous Poems and Quotes |
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"What's the most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying..."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment) |
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Sometimes writing poems is like falling in love. If you haven't done it for a long time, you can barely remember how wonderful it was, and you think that it probably won't happen again. That's why you resist.
-Alice Walker |
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Poetry has a way of teaching what one needs to know . . . if one is honest. -May Sarton |
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Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it.
-A.E. Housman |
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George Gray
I have studied many times
The marble which was chisled for me --
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition calls to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is torture
Of restlessness and vague desire --
It is about longing for the sea and yet afraid.
-Edgar Lee Masters |
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I
think;
therefore
I
am.
-Rene
Descartes
(Cogito,
ergo
sum)
-in Latin |
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment) |
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Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky (Cirme and Punishment) |
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We prefer to live in other people's ideas, it's what we are used to.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (C&P) |
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Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.
-Jane Goodall
"Reason For Hope" |
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We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.
-Jane Goodall
"Reason For Hope" |
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The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent food, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter: only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh.
-Pythagorus |
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We don't want to fight. And yet we gorge upon the dead.
-George Bernard Shaw |
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then if we knowingly and deliberatly inflict suffering on that creature we are equally guilty. Whether it be human or animal we brutalize OURSELVES.
-Jane Goodall
"Reason For Hope" |
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Even if all animals are bred especially for our use - in the laboratory, or for food, or for entertainment - does this make them, somehow, less pig? Less monkey? Less dog? Does this deprive them of feelings and the capacity to suffer?
-Jane Goodall
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You can tell about a people by the way they treat their animals.
-Mahatma Gandhi |
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