Escritas — Poems List

Sally Poplin

Some couples go over their

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.

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Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a dark ocean

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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David Adger

Of course we can keep

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

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Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

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Nancy Astor

The first time Adam had

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

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Robert K. Merton

Most institutions demand unqualified faith;

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

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Jack Cleary

A pessimist is never disappointed.

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Anonymous British civil servant

The ingenuity of the device

The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.

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Pierre Abelard

The beginning of wisdom is

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

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Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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Adolf Hitler

The stronger must dominate and

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

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Jane Austen

It is a truth universally

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Ruth Gordon

Never give up and never

Never give up and never face the facts.

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Pliny the Elder

This only is certain, that

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.

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Steve Knight

Always win; but if you

Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.

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Jane Austen

For what do we live,

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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Mae West

Loves conquers all things except

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

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Virgil

Happy is he who gets

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

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Jane Austen

You have delighted us long

You have delighted us long enough.

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Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

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Albert Einstein

I have deep faith that

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

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Joyce Carol Oates

In love there are things

In love there are things --- bodies and words.

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Jane Austen

Only a novel... in short,

Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

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Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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