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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.


Jim Sensenbrenner


#bears #caricature #distorted #grossly #into

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#beautiful #distorted #makes #mirror #which

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.


Lewis Thomas


#always #being #disloyal #distortion #fallible

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.


Mark Crispin Miller


#distorted #industries #marketplace #our #pressures

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.


Peter Porter


#called #country #distortion #established #heritage

Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.


Lucie Smoker


#karma #lucie-smoker #karma

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.


William H. Hunt


#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.


Gwen John


#anybody #distort #i #i am #know

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.


Sharon Olds


#distorting #form #great #had #i

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#distorts #emotion #emotions #gather #impure






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