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Wilfred Owen

"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

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"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
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"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."
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