Poems List

Emeasoba George

Anybody who holds grudges against

Anybody who holds grudges against anyone/any people is hateful/uncalled for. But, anyone who do forgive all and sundry wholly/wholeheartedly is loveful/called for.

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Irving Penn

Photographing a cake can be

Photographing a cake can be art.

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Emeasoba George

Inspiration/motivation is a recourse i.e.

Inspiration/motivation is a recourse i.e. inspiration/motivation is often a source of empowerment/strenght/encouragement/upliftment. Therefore, do quest for inspirations/motivations whenever you feel depressed/disspirited/dejected. For surely, they can/will uplift/beef up/recoup your about to fall or already fallen spirit/morale/enthusiasm.

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Sean King Park Strategies

(Concerning Shinzo Abe's visit to

(Concerning Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine) "This might be just the thing to push South Korean President Park Geun Hye a little bit closer back in China's direction, just as she was presumably pulling away.

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Eric Goldberg

the single most important surviving

the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul

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Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

The surest way to keep

The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.

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William S. Burroughs

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

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William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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William S. Burroughs

Humility is indeed beatness, a

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

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William S. Burroughs

Black magic operates most effectively

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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William S. Burroughs

This is a war universe.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

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William S. Burroughs

I think there are innumerable

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

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William S. Burroughs

There couldn't be a society

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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William S. Burroughs

I think the ideal situation

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

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Ruckett

Whether joy or sorrowful, the

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

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William S. Burroughs

Which came first the intestine

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

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Ruckett

The fool needs company, the

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

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Ruckett

My only wish is that

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

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Ruckett

Only in dreams does the

Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.

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Ruckett

A vulgar mind is proud

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

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Ruckett

Anxiety about the future never

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.

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Ruckett

Who is mightier than death?

Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens.

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Ruckett

Between today and tomorrow are

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

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Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

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