Edwin Markham Quotes

Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.

Edwin Markham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940

Topics

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That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.

Andrew Lincoln

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I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

John McEnroe

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You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Steve Jobs

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We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

Stafford Cripps

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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Robert Crumb

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Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

Rob Sheffield

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If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

Rita Moreno

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Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Wasserman

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Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

Michael Tippett

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That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Louis XIV

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I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

Jonathan Levine

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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

Chinua Achebe

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