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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. – Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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best
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Walt Whitman
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. – Walt Whitman

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God
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. – Mercedes McCambridge

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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – Edward Abbey

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People who dont know me have opinions about me. Thats the part thats very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if youve never met them or spent any time with them? So its all based upon hearsay or things that theyve read. – Rick Barry

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Time

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadnt earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast. – Charlie Sheen

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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain…. [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields…. – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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I dont want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. – Rogers Hornsby

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun

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