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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ↗


— George Burns


#busy #country #cutting #driving #hair

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes. ↗


— Wanda Lea Brayton


#poetry #writing #youth #love

...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland South of Market tweak- chic trannies powder their noses from bullet-shaped compacts and flick their forked tongues like switchblades as they burn the night down bleed day to night to day to Mission sidewalks where pythons hide twenty dollar balloons beneath their tongues which get bartered in smiles quicker than a coke buzz and tossed out through the cracks Cottonmouth kisses camouflage emotions and strike with a vengeance when he wants and she wants and they want and I won't Genet was right, I suppose when he wrote "The only way to avoid the horror of horror is to give in to it" it's the nature of the economy of the business it's the nature of things... ↗


— Clint Catalyst


#poem #poetry #poetry-quotes #business

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


#busy #corner #dejan-stojanovic #expensive #free

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. ↗


— Simon S. Tam


#api #asian #asian-american #branding #business

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. ↗


— Dale Carnegie


#business #close #get #interested #months

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare ↗


— Muriel Rukeyser


#business

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him. ↗


— Karl Barth


#jesus #man #ministry #business

…(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit the one he created Even though I was the one Who had just made up the business Of the one hundred Chinese silences- The Silence of the Night Boat. And the Silence of the Lotus, Cousin to the Silence of the Temple Bell Only deeper and softer… ↗


— Billy Collins


#loss #poetry #spirit #spirituality #business

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair... ↗


— John Geddes


#dreams #hope #poetry-quotes #sleep #terrible






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