#ems

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

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beauty #departure #independence #rely #themselves

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#business #congressional #effort #first #items

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#agent #ask #cause #finding #funny

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave god alone. He has enough problems. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#alone #beings #enough #god #held

Only the shallow know themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #shallow #themselves

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#america #benefits #full #give #inexperience

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. ↗