#up

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#across #actually #board #cutting #even

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#be prepared #one word #prepared #probably #responsibility

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#opens #possibilities #up #wonderful #worlds

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #every #exists #fight #international

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#assume #completely #danger #dare #demand

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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