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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,
Wrong |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
I only knew two things about Seattle: one, it was a long way from racist, sexist, homophobic, hide-bound, purse-lipped, gun-toting, church-crazed, flag-saluting, bourbon-swilling, buzz-cut, save your Confederate money, boys! Richmond, Virginia; and two, there was reputed to be something not quite right about its weather.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
It's been a positive thing for us. I think it's excellent.
Base men, that use them to so base effect! But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oath are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. Two Gentlemen from Verona, Act ii, Scene 7
'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at II, iv)
Better |
ALONSO: What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! : Marvelous sweet music! The Tempest, Act iii, Scene 3
Will |
And in conclusion she shall watch all night, and if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl and with the clamor keep her still awake. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, and thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor. Taming of the Shrew, Act iv, Scene 1
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.
Age | Chance | Disease | Good | Habit | Hate | Life | Life | Little | Luxury | People | Thinking | Time | Will | Learn | Think |
He did not die in the night, He did not die in the day, But in the morning twilight His spirit passed away.
Nothing |
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labor by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
Better |
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed Art has remembered the people, because they created.
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. - Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. - The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.
Sorrow |
Prince ShÅtoku, born Shotoku Taishi, aka Prince Umayado or Prince Kamitsumiya
Employ the people in forced labor at seasonable times. This is an ancient and excellent rule. Employ them in the winter months when they are at leisure, but not from Spring to Autumn, when they are busy with agriculture or with the mulberry trees (the leaves of which are fed to silkworms). For if they do not attend to agriculture, what will there be to eat? If they do not attend to the mulberry trees, what will there be for clothing?
Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.