Escritas — Poems List

Anonymous

All power corrupts, but we

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

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Siddharth Astir

Talent is like a stream....when

Talent is like a stream....when pertinently channelised it can beget the unimaginable , however when unguided ,it can lead to a catastrophe

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Tao Te Ching

Learning builds daily accumulation, but

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice 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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Oscar Wilde

It is an odd thing,

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

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Siddharth Astir

The Only thing worse than

The Only thing worse than making a wrong decision is ...... to endure the consequences!!!!

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Anonymous

Advertising may be described as

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

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Anonymous

Accident, n. A condition in

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

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Siddharth Astir

At times you don't have

At times you don't have enough time to live and regret a wrong split second decision!!!!

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Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are the last

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

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Lynn White

[W]e shall continue to have

[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

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Anonymous

A stitch in time would

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

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Siddharth Astir

The Mirror may have many

The Mirror may have many uses however sooner or later one uses it for introspection!!!!

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Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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Hippocrates

Opposites are cures for opposites.

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Anonymous

A wise man can see

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Siddharth Astir

Life is like a vicious

Life is like a vicious circle.... only the ones on the edge know what it is to face Highs and lows

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Lucan

If the victor had the

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

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Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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Anonymous

A lifetime is more than

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

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Siddharth Astir

UNITY helps in bringing a

UNITY helps in bringing a successful end to OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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Arthur Wellesley

Publish and be damned!

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Russ Zandbergen

All dimensions are critical dimensions,

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

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