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To "know your place" is a good idea in politics. That is not to say "stay in your place" or "hang on to your place," because ambit ...
the anchor weeps
Its red rust downward,
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unus ...
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then ...
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake ... but absolut ...
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
...
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounces ...
Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscripti ...
To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imp ...
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