It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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We only become beasts — we become worse than beasts — when we torment others.
~ Iain Banks
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By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
― Walter Benjamin
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
~ Audre Lorde
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