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Edith Hamilton Quotes

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963

Topics

Pain Poetry Tragedy Nothing Write

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Work Live Sky Die You Pie

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Three Race Sound See British Really

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

Broken Think Dawn Internet Career

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

Work Animal Child Game Partner

I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.

People Think Television See Up Web

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Decision Effort Society Action Every

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.

Health Competition You Bad Wall

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Work Community Intelligence Law

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

Michael Imperioli

Life Family Me My Life Important

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

Walk Me Singing Song Theme Up

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Stephen Leacock

Effort Law Game Golf View Sunday

To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

Impact American Security Price Stop

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