#is

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet. ↗

— Stevie Smith

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A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#capital #concrete #even #guarantee #his

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#choose #his #inexorably #lying #method

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#build #era #fitness #govern #his

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions. ↗

— Susan Smith

#bad #everything #feeling #had #his way

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#his #omniscience #science

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#greatest #little #mistakes #nothing #only

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anyone #between #cannot #comes #directions

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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