Escritas — Poems List

Siddharth Astir

Alcohol is like a batsman,

Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards

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Anonymous

J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport

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Lao Zi

Learning builds daily accumulation, but

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

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E.W. Dijkstra

The use of COBOL cripples

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

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Siddharth Astir

A true friend has no

A true friend has no definition ...... as its only you who knows who they are!!!!

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Anonymous

An act against my will

An act against my will is not my act.

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Sun System & Network Admin manual

... it is important to

... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.

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Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

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Loren D. Estleman

It is the supreme tragedy

It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist.

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Anonymous

What if this weren't a

What if this weren't a hypothetical question

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C. S. Lewis

Five senses; an incurably abstract

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Man does not live by

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

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Anonymous

Transported to a surreal landscape,

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

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Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of now.

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Walt Kelly

There is no need to

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

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Marvin Minsky

I bet the human brain

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

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Anonymous

Whoever does not love his

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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John Green

Nothing ever happens like you

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine tht kills the fascists.

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George V

How is the Empire?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A mind once stretched by

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

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Anonymous

Just once, I wish we

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.

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John Green

Ther are so many people.

Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined.

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Euclid

There is no royal road

There is no "royal road" to geometry.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Put out the light.

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