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Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose
To drive the shadows back;
Prolong the talk on this or that excuse....
Philip Larkin
company
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...the promise of automation seemed to exert a magnetic force, a seduction that promised to fulfill a dream of perfect control and ...
Shoshana Zuboff
automation | analysis
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Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of t ...
Shoshana Zuboff
power | authority
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I call demonic the restlessness which is innate and essential in every human being ... (that which) drives one beyond one's limits ...
Stefan Zweig
inspirational | art | artists
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Time in the heart and sequence in the brain--
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Conrad Aiken
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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us un ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved--the Great Society-- ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; ...
Omar Khayyám
future, the | world, the
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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it ...
Arthur Schopenhauer
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With this pen I take in hand my selves
and with these dead disciples I will grapple. ...
Anne Sexton
poetry | poets | writers and writing
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