Escritas — Poems List

Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

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Deborah Martin

Doctors and nurses are people

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.

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Anonymous

Psychiatry is the care of

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

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Chrisopher Walken

Life, at best, is completely

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we wake up from

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

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Richard von Weizscker

Whoever refuses to remember the

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

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Edmund Gwenn

Dying is easy. Comedy is

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.

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Miguel de Cervantes

When life itself seems lunatic,

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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Richard von Weizscker

All of us, whether guilty

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Under the shadow of swords,

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

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Anonymous

Pain is inevitable; suffering is

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

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Jamie Ann Hunt

My kittens look at me

My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Books get older as well;

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

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Richard von Weizscker

There were many ways of

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

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Kodak founder George Eastman

My work is done, why

My work is done, why wait?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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William Weld

There's no Walter Cronkite to

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good library at home

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

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Fran Lebowitz

If you are of the

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

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