Poems List

Jack Leigh

“You look through the viewfinder

“You look through the viewfinder and know that it is your responsibility and your art and your passion to look at everything in that frame as part of a whole that you need to shape. There’s nothing in that frame which should go unnoticed. Then that’s what it means to be thinking and seeing as a photographer.”

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Charles de Leusse

The present is the equilibrium

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)

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Charles A. Duelfer

Iraq didn’t need to be

Iraq didn’t need to be this bad. Still, something had to be done. That much is clear.

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Jack Leigh

“I was very much of

“I was very much of the opinion that southern culture was a unique culture born of the union, the contribution, of the races. We all knew the struggle and the history of that. But where I found myself in attitude was wanting to celebrate that union because southern culture was definitely a synthesis of black and white.”

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Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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Arthur Koestler

Creative activity could be described

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

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Arthur Koestler

Politics can be relatively fair

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

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Arthur Koestler

If conquerors be regarded as

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

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Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

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Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

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Arthur Koestler

Nothing is more sad than

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

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Vikrant Parsai

There are three things most

There are three things most men love but never understand; females, girls and women.

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Vikrant Parsai

The trouble with life is

The trouble with life is that by the time you know how to play the game, you are too old to make the team.

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Vikrant Parsai

Some people use language to

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.

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Heywood Broun

Hell is paved with great

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

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Heywood Broun

The urge to gamble is

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

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Heywood Broun

The most prolific period of

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

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Heywood Broun

Except that right side up

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.

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Heywood Broun

Men are blind in their

Men are blind in their own cause.

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Heywood Broun

Brotherhood is not just a

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

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Heywood Broun

A liberal is a man

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

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Mette Ljosland

Were it not Folly, Spider-like

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win - What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in.

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Atul Kini R

The power of a democracy

The power of a democracy is not on how much citizens cast their vote. But it is only on how they treat the defeated.

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