Escritas — Poems List

Simone Weil

All sins are attempts to

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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Victor Hugo

Nothing discernable to the eye

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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James Thurber

The wit makes fun of

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

That everybody is allowed to

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

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Allen Ginsberg

America, why are your libraries

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

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Marcelene Cox

The quickest way to know

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

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Anonymous

The more you know, the

The more you know, the less you need to show.

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Edna Woolman Chase

Fashion can be bought. Style

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

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Arthur Rimbaud

Eternity. It is the sea

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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Judith Martin

There are three social classes

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

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Edward Filene

The credit Union movement..It is

The credit Union movement..It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty.

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Mark Coggins

Carbon atoms on a distant

Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land—and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley.

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Marcel Marceau

Music and silence combine strongly

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

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Katherine Tynan Hinkson

To be a saint does

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

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Alphonse Desjardins

A credit union is not

A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal.

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Mark Coggins

Einstein said that God does

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn't play dice with the universe because the universe doesn't need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

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