#urns

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#burns #candle #die #good #good health

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#intellectual #into #just #out #overly

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#al-qaeda #defeat #dismantle #disrupt #haven

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. ↗

— Bill Murray

#american #american way #i #i think #out

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#before #burns #day #days #each

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

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For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #cosmos #death #emotion #experience

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#cannot #contribution #imagine #music #scots

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #christopher #columbus #discount #even

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#lobby #manufacturing #networks #nobody #returns