Escritas — Poems List

Margaret Mead

Mothers are a biological necessity;

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

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Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

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Kongming (Zhuge Liang)

Those who are skilled in

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

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Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much the

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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Louis Pasteur

In the field of observation,

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

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Indira Gandhi

There exists no politician in

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

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Milan Kundera

We must never allow the

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

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Henri Poincare

Science is facts; just as

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

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Henry Miller

Develop interest in life as

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

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Laurie Jo Wojcik

Daughters go into analysis hating

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.

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Rudy Bakalov

Good taste is always an

Good taste is always an asset.

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Milan Kundera

To laugh is to live

To laugh is to live profoundly.

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Doris Lessing

All sanity depends on this:

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

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Karen Horney

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

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Glen Cook

Mornings are wonderful! The only

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!

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George Bernard Shaw

Take the utmost trouble to

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

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Mrs. Patrick Campbell

When you were quite a

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.

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Stella Terrill Mann

Every time we say, Let

Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.

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Glen Cook

I guess each of us,

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is half good manners

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

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Ecclesiastes

Give not over thy soul

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

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Glen Cook

Evil is relative…You can't hang

Evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

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Anonymous

Between the wish and the

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

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