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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. – Walt Whitman

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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. – Walt Whitman

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. – Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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People who dont like me talk about it as though Im trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because its 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos arent limited to sailors. Its a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. – Megan Fox

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Painting is silent poetry. – Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

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Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne

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I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. – Cobi Jones

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. – Abraham Kuyper

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Youre talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. Ive never really been a dater. – Stockard Channing

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