Louis MacNeice Quotes

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 12, 1907 - September 3, 1963

Topics

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The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

John Bolton

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The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

Andrea Bocelli

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All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

John Murray

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We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

Megan Rapinoe

ThoughtfulConversationCountryNeed

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Robert Rinder

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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

Anita Diament

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Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.

Tom Cotton

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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I used to run to school with my brother Jordan. It was two or three miles there and back. We'd do it every day. My parents didn't have the money to buy us bikes. It was nice; we enjoyed it.

Romelu Lukaku

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I haven't swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.

Michael Phelps

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I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Christine McVie

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I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

Anthony Marra

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