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• We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.

  John Armstrong

  Mother, Nature, Hands

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

  John Armstrong

  Ideas, Desire, Sometimes

  "God vs. the Bible: How God's Creation Discredits Christian Scripture". Book by John Armstron, 2007.

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• The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Years, Secret, Tragedy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Law, Government, Unions

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

  Robert Browning

  Book, People, Feelings

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.267, e-artnow sro

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

  Tommy Lasorda

  People, Looks, Today

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

  Fergus Henderson

  Animal, Polite, Whole

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• There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

  Damon Lindelof

  Believe, Want, Reason

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• The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Player, Night, Fuel

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• I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
  others the impression that they are.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Clothes, Giving

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

  Stacy London

  Feel Good, Feelings, Style

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• For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

  Alex Steffen

  Talking, Cities, Impact

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• Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, He Man

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• I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

  Siegfried Woldhek

  Names, Ideas, Drawing

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• Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Selfish, Opportunity, Government

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  George Washington

  Country, Military, Years

  "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment". Letter to Alexander Hamilton on May 02, 1783. "The Writings of George Washington", edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Volume 26, p. 289, 1938.

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• So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

  John Milton

  Abuse, Littles, Worst

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.248, Penguin

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Class, Steps

  "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 15, 1987.

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Prayer, Giving Up, Mean

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

  Richard Whately

  Complaining, Logic, Language

  Richard Whately (1867). “Rhetoric”, p.9

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• Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

  Amy Lowell

  Cadence, Kind, Assonance

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

  William Carlos Williams

  Jobs, Language, Poet

  "Modern American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1950.

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• When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Men, Expression

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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