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Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living..."

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. Khalil Gibran
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. Daniel Yergin
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. Edgar Allan Poe
Sophocles quote: "A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles
Beth Gibbons quote: "I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little..."
I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober. Beth Gibbons
Alan Watts quote: "But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists..."
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts
...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens? Paul Wellstone
George Herbert quote: "Punishment is lame, but it comes."
Punishment is lame, but it comes. George Herbert
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. Jose Ortega y Gasset
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily. W. E. B. Du Bois
Ernie Fletcher quote: "Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable..."
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. Ernie Fletcher
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over it their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Gray Truth is now her painted toy. William Butler Yeats
If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun. Carol Channing
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "A good conscience is eight parts of courage."
A good conscience is eight parts of courage. Robert Louis Stevenson
Bob Costas quote: "I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business."
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business. Bob Costas