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Quote by Robert Frost
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own m

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

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power
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Robert Frost
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Robert Frost

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work
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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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Poetry

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. – Georges Seurat

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Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. – Bill Watterson

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Best Friends

In love there are two things – bodies and words. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Love

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife. – Larry Hagman

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sad

On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a Restoring Honor revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis. – James Wolcott

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