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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. – Alexander Pope

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Change
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Alexander Pope
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reservd to blame, or to commend,
A timrous foe, and a suspicious friend. – Alexander Pope

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Satire
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Alexander Pope
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Hmmm

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag

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Hmmm

Invent a past for the present. – Daniel Stern

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Hmmm

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. – Terri Guillemets

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

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There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Youd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three. – John Podhoretz

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Poetrys always dead, you know? You dont realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. – Richard Hell

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