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Walt Whitman Quotes

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

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Life Live Me Powerful Meet Nothing

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

Men Government House Will Consent

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

Jennifer Granholm

Change Saying Believe Political Try

I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

Start Book Bible Look Find Know

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Wife Me Heaven Meet Will

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Nature Flowers Moon Night Looks See

Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.

Style People Stylish You Know True

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

Experience Day Spiritual Immigrants

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

Ruth J. Simmons

Family Children Things Organize Were

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Mind Devil Garbage Just Your Use

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William Shenstone

Beauty Simplicity You Variety Most

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

Education Democracy Trouble Serious

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

Love Time Struggle You Now Actor

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