Escritas — Poems List

John Rocco Savalli

The secret to money is

The secret to money is so simple that most people completely miss it, because they're looking for some grand answer about this resource called money, which has so much power over them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

It strikes me as gruesome

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

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Voltaire

Work saves us from three

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

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Tommy Lasorda

All last year we tried

All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.

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John Rocco Savalli

You know a whole lot

You know a whole lot more about money than you think you do. You've only been misled to believe that you don't know by people who don't want you to understand how simple money really is.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of the man who

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are shouts so

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

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Richard Bach

The bonds that links your

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I really wonder what gives

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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John Rocco Savalli

Truth is simple. It's just

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

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R. Buckminster Fuller

I think I am a

I think I am a verb.

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Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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John Rocco Savalli

The power trust is nothing

The power trust is nothing more than a select group of dictators, with the same goals and objectives - but unlike the brutal dictators we study in history - this select group prefers to operate in the dark, behind banks, governments, politicians, companies, and so forth.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

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Edmund Burke

Men have no right to

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

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Samuel Johnson

I have found you an

I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I want to stay as

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

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John Rocco Savalli

The Light of Liberty is

The Light of Liberty is all-consuming because it is the natural way of the soul. It is the highest form of Love.”

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William Jennings Bryan

Destiny...is not a matter of

Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved

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Joel Hawes

Aim at the sun, and

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

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Kurt Vonnegut

All persons, living or dead,

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

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John Rocco Savalli

Watching television as a passive

Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.

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I.F. Stone

Every government is run by

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

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Nicholas Negroponte

Where did you put it?

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