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Wallace Stevens

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

Arthur Capper, American Politician
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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Alan Moore, British Writer
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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

Augustus Hare, English Writer
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist
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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."
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"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."
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"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."
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