Escritas — Poems List

George W. Bush

Would you please shut up

Would you please shut up and sit down!

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Samuel Johnson

Of all the griefs that

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,

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Winston Churchill

Statistics are like a drunk

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

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William Arthur Wood

Leadership is based on inspiration,

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

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Pat Robertson

It is about a socialist,

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

32

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

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Annie Dillard

How we spend our days

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

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William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle

Glory is like a circle in the water,

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Don Eslinger

We believe he wanted to

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

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Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake a man

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

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John Locke

Good and evil, reward and

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

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Gore Vidal

Half of the American people

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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Agesilaus the Second

Courage is of no value

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

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Michael Korda

In order to succeed, we

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

19

George Bernard Shaw

To drift is to be

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Afranius

The wise man will love;

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

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Miriam Defensor Santiago

Many, if not all, of

Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots.

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Whittaker Chambers

Communism is what happens when,

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

20

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Happiness is in the joy

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

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John Henry Cardinal Newman

Let us take things as

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

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Henry Van Dyke

Some succeed because they are

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

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Abraham Lincoln

We are not enemies but

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

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