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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
"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."
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
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