#visions

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#confronting #divisions #greatest #i #islam

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#i #life #like #lot #my life

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#around #build #community #downtown #hard

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#bounded #directly #limited #live #men