#vent

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#anyone #current #current events #events #i

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ↗

— George Wald

#concept #crimes #invention #war

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home. ↗

— Greg Walden

#call #catastrophic #communities #fire #forests

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#challenge #come #current #eventually #i

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bicycle #carrying #i #invented #lazy

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#agreements #bloodshed #both #both sides #courage

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. ↗

— Alice Walker

#does #eventually #everyone #life #only

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#charity #common #common sense #democracy #economic