Escritas — Poems List

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to appreciate

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married!..

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Lillian Eichler Watson

Happiness is not in having

Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.

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Jamiroquai

It's a wonder man can

It's a wonder man can eat at all, when things are big that should be small.

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Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

For humans as well as

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

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Lillian Eichler Watson

There has never been an

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

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Thomas Carlyle

France was a long despotism

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

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Jamiroquai

We can always take but

We can always take but never give.

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Thomas John Watson

The ability to ask the

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fame is like a suffocating

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

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Mark Twain

In Marseilles they make half

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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TLC

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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Thomas John Watson

I think there is a

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fame is like a castle.

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

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Quentin Crisp

For flavor, instant sex will

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

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John Lennon

Imagine there's no countries, it

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

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Thomas John Watson

Praising God is one of

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Politicians are the close relatives

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

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Michael Jackson

If you wanna make the

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

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Quentin Crisp

Is not the whole world

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?

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Thomas John Watson

Recently, I was asked if

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience

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Orie G Tomlin

May your heart alway's be

May your heart alway's be warm, and may love be the first to live in your soul, may the sun shine opon you with joy and BLIND THE LOW LIFES THAT TRY TO F--K THINGS UP

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Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools

Men have become the tools of their tools

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Michael Jackson

You keep changin' the rules

You keep changin' the rules and I can't play the game. I can't take it much longer. I think I might go insane.

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