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Edith Wharton

August 21, 2010 – 4:24 am
Posted in America, Authors, Designers, Editors, Humanitarians, Poets, WWI
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“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

Federico García Lorca

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

Charles Dibdin

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

John Heywood

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

Matthew Arnold

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

Baltasar Gracián

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Kabir

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

Shams Tabrizi

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much”. –Shams Tabrizi

Zoroaster

“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession”. –Zoroaster

Eazy-E

“Don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”. –Eazy-E

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

Novalis

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

Abu Bakr

April 30, 2010 – 4:15 am
Posted in Arabia, Architects, Authors, Byzantine Empire, Civil War, Emperors, Founding Fathers, Generals, Iraq, Islam, Leaders, Military, Palestine, Persian Empire, Philosophers, Poets, Priests, Religion, Revolutionaries, Royalty, Syria, Theologians
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“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Roger Zelazny

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe”. –Roger Zelazny

Oliver Herford

April 23, 2010 – 3:54 am
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Journalists, Poets
Tagged America, American, American Artist, American Artists, American Author, American Authors, American Writer, American Writers, Americans, Art, Artist, Artists, Artwork, Author, Authors, Britain, British, British Empire, But Few Get Up, Call, Called, Called But Few Get Up, Calling, Calls, Few, Few Get Up, Fewer, Fewest, Get, Get Up, Gets, Getting, Got, Great Britain, Herford, Herford Quote, Herford Quotes, Humor, Humorist, Humorists, Humorous, Illustrate, Illustrated, Illustrates, Illustrating, Illustration, Illustrations, Illustrator, Illustrators, Journalism, Journalist, Journalists, Little Book of Bores, Many, Many Are, Many Are Called, Many Are Called But Few Get Up, O, O Herford, O Herford Quote, O Herford Quotes, Oliver, Oliver Herford, Oliver Herford Quote, Oliver Herford Quotes, Quote, Quotes, The American Oscar Wilde, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom, The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903, U.K., U.S., U.S.A., UK, United Kingdom, United States, United States of America, Up, Us, USA, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Writings, Wrote
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“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Robert Southey

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust”. –Robert Southey

Geoffrey Chaucer

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde”. –Geoffrey Chaucer

Bertolt Brecht

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

William Blake

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”. –William Blake

Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

Yukio Mishima

“My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality”. –Yukio Mishima

Osbert Sitwell

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space”. –Osbert Sitwell

Menander

April 7, 2010 – 12:23 am
Posted in Ancient Greece, Authors, Poets
Tagged Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek Dramatist, Ancient Greek Dramatists, Ancient Greek Poet, Ancient Greek Poets, Ancient Greeks, As We Can, Athenian, Athenian New Comedy, Athenians, Athens, But As We Can, Can, Drama, Dramatist, Dramatists, Greece, Greek, Greek Dramatist, Greek Dramatists, Greek Poet, Greek Poets, Greeks, Μένανδρος, Lady of Andros, Lady of Andros - Fragment 50, Live, Live Not As We Wish, Live Not As We Wish To, Lived, Lives, Living, Menander, Menander Quote, Menander Quotes, Menandros, Menandros Quote, Menandros Quotes, New Comedy, Not, Not As We Wish, Not As We Wish To, Not As We Wish To But As We Can, Poet, Poetry, Poets, We Can, We Live, We Live Not As We Wish, We Live Not As We Wish To, We Live Not As We Wish To But As We Can, We Wish, We Wish To, Wish, Wished, Wishes, Wishing
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“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can”. –Menander

Boris Pasternak

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

William Shakespeare

April 4, 2010 – 11:59 am
Posted in Actors, Authors, British Empire, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Bard of Avon, Best, Better, Bill Shakespeare, Britain, British, England, English, English Literature, English Playwright, English Playwrights, English Poet, English Poets, Englishman, Englishmen, King Lear, King Lear Quote, King Lear Quotes, Literature, Mar, Mar What's Well, Marred, Marring, Mars, Oft, Oft We Mar, Oft We Mar What's Well, Often, Playwright, Playwrights, Poet, Poets, Quote, Quotes, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quote, Shakespeare Quotes, Stratford Upon Avon, Strive, Strived, Strives, Striving, Striving To Better, Striving To Better Oft We Mar What's Well, The Bard of Avon, United Kingdom, Well, What's Well, William, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare Quote, William Shakespeare Quotes
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“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well”. –William Shakespeare

Allen Ginsberg

“You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits repression in various forms of social sadism”. –Allen Ginsberg

Virgil

March 31, 2010 – 10:07 am
Posted in Authors, Poets, Roman Empire
Tagged All Things, Ancient Rome, Bear, Bearing, Bears, Bears Away All Things, Bore, Bucolics, Bucolics Quote, Eclogues, Eclogues Quote, Eclogues Quotes, Even Our Minds, Maro, Mind, Minds, Omnia Fert Aetas Animum Quoque, Omnia Fert Ætas Animum Quoque, Our Minds, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Publius, Publius Vergilius Maro, Publius Vergilius Maro Quote, Publius Vergilius Maro Quotes, Quote, Quotes, Roman, Roman Empire, Roman Poet, Roman Poets, Roman Writer, Roman Writers, Romans, Rome, Thing, Things, Time, Time Bears Away, Time Bears Away All Things, Time Bears Away All Things Even Our Minds, Timed, Times, Timing, Vergil, Vergil Quote, Vergil Quotes, Vergilius, Vergilius Quote, Vergilius Quotes, Virgil, Virgil Quote, Virgil Quotes, Write, Writer, Writers, Writes, Writing, Wrote
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“Time bears away all things, even our minds”. –Virgil

Ogden Nash

“Senator Smoot is an institute Not to be bribed with pelf; He guards our homes from erotic tomes By reading them all himself”. –Ogden Nash

Tupac Shakur

March 30, 2010 – 9:40 pm
Posted in Activists, Actors, America, Artists, Authors, Entrepreneurs, Musicians, Poets
Tagged 2Pac Quote, 2Pac Quotes, 2Pac Shakur, 2Pac Shakur Quote, 2Pac Shakur Quotes, Amaru, America, America Is The Biggest, America Is The Biggest Gang, America Is The Biggest Gang In The World, American, Americanism, Americans, Americas, Big, Bigger, Biggest, Biggest Gang, Born Busy Records, Death Row, Death Row Records, Gang, Gangs, Gangsta, Gangsta Rap, Gangsta Rapper, Gangsta Rappers, Gangstas, Gangster Rap, Gangster Rapper, Gangster Rappers, Hip, Hip-Hop, Hop, Interscope, Interscope Records, Makaveli, Makaveli Quote, Makaveli Quotes, Out Da Gutta, Pac, Pac Quote, Pac Quotes, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Quote, Quotes, Rap, Rapper, Rappers, Shakur, Shakur Quote, Shakur Quotes, The Biggest Gang, The Biggest Gang In The World, Tupac, Tupac Amaru Shakur, Tupac Quote, Tupac Quotes, Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Quote, Tupac Shakur Quotes, West Coast, West Coast Rap, World, Worlds
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“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

Jim Morrison

March 28, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, Directors, Musicians, Poets, Producers
Tagged Acid, Acid Rock, Blues, Blues Rock, But You'll Never Follow Me, Classic Rock, Classic Rock Music, Counterculture, Doors, Douglas, End, Follow, Follow Me, Followed, Following, Follows, Free, Freed, Freedom, Freeing, Frees, Hard, Hard Rock, Hurt, Hurting, Hurts, Hurts To Set You Free, It Hurts, It Hurts To Set You Free, It Hurts To Set You Free But You'll Never Follow Me, James, James Douglas Morrison, James Morrison, Jim, Jim Morrison, Jim Morrison Quote, Jim Morrison Quotes, Morrison, Morrison Quote, Morrison Quotes, Never, Never Follow Me, Psychedelia, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Rock, Rock, Rock Music, Sat, Set, Set You Free, Sets, Setting, The Doors, The End, To Set You Free, You'll Never Follow Me
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“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Eugene Ionesco

“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstandings”. –Eugene Ionesco

Henrik Ibsen

March 27, 2010 – 3:32 am
Posted in Authors, Directors, Norway, Poets
Tagged Author, Authors, Blew, Blow, Blow Up, Blow Up All Existing Institutions, Blows, Destroy, Destroyed, Destroying, Destroys, Drama, Dramatist, Exist, Existed, Existing, Existing Institutions, Exists, Good, Great, Great Task, Henrik, Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen Quote, Henrik Ibsen Quotes, Henrik Johan Ibsen, Ibsen, Ibsen Quote, Ibsen Quotes, Institution, Institutional, Institutions, Johan, Modern Drama, Norway, Norwegian, Norwegians, Our Time, Playwright, Playwrights, Quote, Quotes, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Scandinavians, Task, Tasks, The Great Task, The Great Task Of Our Time, The Great Task Of Our Time Is To Blow Up All Existing Institutions - To Destroy, Time, Times, To Destroy, Writer, Writers
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“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy”. –Henrik Ibsen

Sri Aurobindo

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

William Morris

March 27, 2010 – 1:25 am
Posted in Activists, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Designers, Historians, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged About, Another, Battle, Battles, Come, Come About, Comes, Comes About, Defeat, Defeated, Defeating, Defeats, Fight, Fighting, Fights, Fought, Fought For, Have to Fight, I Pondered, I Pondered These Things, In Spite, In Spite Of Their Defeat, Lose, Lose The Battle, Loses, Losing, Lost, Man, Mean, Meant, Men, Men Fight, Men Fight And Lose The Battle, Men Have To Fight, Morris, Morris Quote, Morris Quotes, Name, Named, Names, Naming, Other Men Have To Fight, Out, Ponder, Pondered, Pondered These Things, Pondering, Ponders, Quote, Quotes, Spite, Spites, Spiting, These Things, Thing, Things, Turn, Turn Out, Turned, Turning, Turns, Turns Out, Turns Out Not To Be What They Meant, Under, Under Another Name, What They Meant, When It Comes, William, William Morris, William Morris Quote, William Morris Quotes
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“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

Aleksandr Pushkin

“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world”. –Aleksandr Pushkin

Voltaire

March 24, 2010 – 4:30 pm
Posted in Activists, Authors, French Empire, Historians, Philosophers, Poets, Religion
Tagged Ancient, Ancient Romans, Ancient Rome, Architectural, Architecturally, Architecture, Arouet, Beast, Beasts, Build, Building, Builds, Built, Fight, Fighting, Fights, Fought, François-Marie Arouet, Francois, Great, Greater, Greatest, Greatest Masterpieces, Greats, Marie, Masterpiece, Masterpieces, Quote, Quotes, Roma, Roman, Romans, Rome, The Ancient Romans, The Ancient Romans Built Their Greatest Masterpieces Of Architecture For Wild Beasts To Fight In, Voltaire, Voltaire Quote, Voltaire Quotes, Wild, Wild Beast, Wild Beasts, Wilderness, Wilds
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“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in”. –Voltaire

T.E. Lawrence

March 23, 2010 – 2:57 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Generals, Philosophers, Poets, Revolutionaries, WWI
Tagged Act, Acted, Acting, Acts, All Men Dream, All Men Dream But Not Equally, Arab, Arabia, Arabian, Arabs, But Not Equally, Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Men, Dangers, Day, Days, Dream, Dreamed, Dreamer, Dreamers, Dreamers of the Day are Dangerous Men, Dreaming, Dreams Dreamt, Dust, Dusty, Dusty Recesses of the Mind, Edward, Equal, Equality, Equally, Eye, Eyed, Eyes, Eying, Find, Finding, Finds, Found, Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia Quote, Lawrence of Arabia Quotes, Made, Make, Make It Possible, Makes, Making, Man, May, Men, Mind, Minds, Night, Nights, Nighttime, Not Equally, Open, Open Eyes, Opened, Opening, Opens, Possibilities, Possible, Quote, Quotes, Recess, Recesses, T.E., T.E. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence Quote, T.E. Lawrence Quotes, TE, TE Lawrence, TE Lawrence Quote, TE Lawrence Quotes, This I Did, Thomas, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Those Who Dream By Night, Vain, Vanity, Wake, Waked, Wakes, Waking, Woke
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did”. –T.E. Lawrence

Robert Frost

March 23, 2010 – 11:15 am
Posted in America, Authors, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Big, Big One, Bigger, Biggest, Bigs, Clear, Cleared, Clearing, Clears, Forgive, Forgive O Lord My Little Jokes On Thee And I'll Forgive Thy Great Big One On Thee, Forgiven, Forgives, Forgiving, Frost, Frost Quote, Frost Quotes, Great, Great Big One, Greater, Greatest, Greats, In The Clearing, Joke, Joked, Jokes, Joking, Little, Lord, Lords, Me, Mine, My, My Little Jokes, O Lord, One, Quote, Quotes, Robert, Robert Frost, Robert Frost Quote, Robert Frost Quotes, Robert Lee Frost, Thee, Thy
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee; And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me”. –Robert Frost

Randall Jarrell

March 22, 2010 – 9:25 pm
Posted in America, Authors, Military, Poets, WWII
Tagged America, American, Americans, Americas, Every, Every Pearl Has Its Oyster, Except, Except From The Americans, Excepted, Excepting, Exception, Excepts, Feel, Feel Free, Feeling, Feels, Feels Free, Felt, Free, Freed, Freedom, Freeing, In The United States, Jarrell, Jarrell Quote, Jarrell Quotes, One Feels Free, Oyster, Oysters, Pearl, Pearls, Quote, Quotes, Randall, Randall Jarrell, Randall Jarrell Quote, Randall Jarrell Quotes, State, States, The United States, There One Feels Free, Unite, United, United States, Unites, Uniting
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“In the United States, there one feels free… Except from the Americans — but every pearl has its oyster”. –Randall Jarrell

Miguel de Cervantes

“In order to obtain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd”. –Miguel de Cervantes

Karl Kraus

March 19, 2010 – 11:26 pm
Posted in Austrian Empire, Authors, Editors, Journalists, Poets
Tagged End, Ends, Enemies, Enemy, Everyone, Everyone Has Lost, Expect, Expects, Expects the Enemy to Lose, First, Has, Hope, Hopes, In, In The End, Karl, Karl Kraus, Karl Kraus Quote, Karl Kraus Quotes, Kraus, Lose, Loses, Losing, Loss, Lost, One, One Hopes to Win, Quote, Quotes, Satisfied, Satisfies, Satisfy, Suffer, Suffered, Suffering, Suffers, Surprise, Surprised, Surprises, Surprising, War, Wars, Win, Winner, Winning, Wins
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“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost”. –Karl Kraus

Walter Raleigh

March 19, 2010 – 10:11 am
Posted in Adventurers, Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Explorers, Leaders, Military, Philosophers, Poets, Protestant Church
Tagged Follow, Follow Truth Too Near the Heals, Followed, Following, Follows, Happily, Happy, Heel, Heels, Histories, History, Modern, Near, Neared, Nearing, Nears, Quote, Quotes, Raleigh, Shall Follow Truth, Sir, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh Quote, Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes, Strike, Strikes, Striking, Struck, Teeth, Tooth, Truth, Truths, Walter, Walter Raleigh, Walter Raleigh Quote, Walter Raleigh Quotes, Whosoever, Write, Writes, Writing, Writing Modern History, Written
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“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Robert Graves

March 18, 2010 – 7:27 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians, Military, Poets, WWI
Tagged Beside, Besides, Come, Comes, Familiar, Graves, Graves Quote, Graves Quotes, Like, Look, Looks, Nobody, Nobody Is Familiar With His Own Profile, One, Own, People, Peoples, Person, Persons, Portrait, Portraits, Profile, Profiles, Quote, Quotes, Ranke, Really, Robert, Robert Graves, Robert Graves Quote, Robert Graves Quotes, Robert Ranke Graves, See, Sees, Shock, Shocked, Shocking, Shocks, Stand, Standing, Stands, Stood, That, When
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“Nobody is familiar with his own profile, and it comes as a shock when one sees it in a portrait, that one really looks like that to people standing beside one”. –Robert Graves

Hans Christian Andersen

March 18, 2010 – 2:17 pm
Posted in Artists, Authors, Denmark, Poets
Tagged Andersen, Anderson, Christian, Death, Death Walks Faster Than The Wind, Fast, Faster, Fastest, Hans, Hans Andersen, Hans Anderson, Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Anderson, Has, He, Never, Never Returns What He Has Taken, Quote, Quotes, Return, Returned, Returning, Returns, Take, Taken, Takes, Taking, Walk, Walks, What, Wind, Winds, Windy
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“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen

Walter Kaufmann

March 17, 2010 – 10:35 pm
Posted in America, Authors, German Empire, Judaism, Philosophers, Poets, Religion, Theologians
Tagged Advantage, Advantages, Art, Artist, Artistry, Artists, Deep, Deepen, Deepen His Understanding, Deeper, Deeps, Great, Great Artist, Greater, Greatest, Grew, Grow, Growing, Kaufmann, Let, Letting, Man, Men, Most, Obvious, Obviously, Pain, Pains, Quote, Quotes, Sensibility, Sensible, Succeed, Succeeds, Success, Successful, Suffer, Suffered, Suffering, Suffers, The Great Artist, Through, Turn, Turned, Turning, Turns, Understand, Understanding, Understands, Walter, Walter Kaufmann, Who
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“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Salvador Dali

March 17, 2010 – 6:59 am
Posted in Artists, Authors, Painters, Photographers, Poets, Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Empire
Tagged 1st, 1st Marquis of Pubol, A Little Money, Achieve, Achieved, Achieves, Achieving, Become, Becomes, Collapse, Collapses, Contrary, Dali, Difficult, Difficulties, Domenech, Domingo, Everything, Felipe, Good, Goodwill, Ignominious, Ignominiously, Impossibility, Impossible, Jacinto, Kind, Kinds, Little, Little Money, Marquis, Mediocre, Mediocrity, Money, Necessary, Organization, Organizations, People, Peoples, Person, Persons, Plenty, Pubol, Quote, Quotes, Receive, Received, Receives, Receiving, Salvador, Salvador Dali, Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Something, Will, Young, Young People
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“Any kind of organization for the goodwill of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously”. –Salvador Dali

Aphra Behn

March 15, 2010 – 10:19 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Poets, Roman Catholic Church
Tagged Afra, Afra Behn, Aphra, Aphra Behn, Behn, Eaffry, Eaffry Behn, Is, Like, No, Not, Quote, Quotes, Saint, Sainthood, Saintly, Saints, Sin, Sinned, Sinner, Sinning, There, There Is No Sinner Like A Young Saint, Young, Young Saint, Younger, Youngest
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“There is no sinner like a young saint”. –Aphra Behn

John Milton

March 15, 2010 – 3:36 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Christianity, Civil War, Philosophers, Poets, Politicians, Protestant Church, Theologians
Tagged Can, Free, Freedom, Good, Good Men, Heart, Heartily, Hearts, Hearty, John, John Milton, John Milton Quote, John Milton Quotes, License, Licensed, Licenses, Lost, Love, Loved, Loves, Loving, Man, Mans, Men, Mens, Milton, Milton Quote, Milton Quotes, None, None Can Love Freedom Heartily But Good Men, Paradise, Paradise Lost, Quote, Quotes, Rest, Rests, The Rest Love Not Freedom But License
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“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Aristotle

March 15, 2010 – 12:12 pm
Posted in Ancient Greece, Authors, Biologists, Philosophers, Physicians, Physicists, Poets, Politicians, Religion, Scientists, Theologians, Zoologists
Tagged Aristoteles, Aristotle, Arm, Armed, Armor, Arms, Ἀριστοτέλης, Both, Deprivation, Deprive, Deprive Them of Their Arms, Deprived, Deprives, Depriving, Mistrust, Mistrust the People, Mistrusted, Mistrusting, Mistrusts, Oligarch, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, People, Peoples, Person, Persons, Quote, Quotes, Their, Therefore, Tyranny, Tyrant, Tyrants
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“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

F. Scott Fitzgerald

March 15, 2010 – 11:46 am
Posted in America, Authors, Poets, WWI
Tagged Civilization, Civilizations, Civilize, Civilized, Civilizes, Civilizing, Disciplinarian, Discipline, Disciplined, Disciplining, Either, F. Scott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Francis, Francis Fitzgerald, Francis Scott, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Have, Is, Key, Natural, Natural Tastes, Nature, Night, Other, Others, Perversion, Pervert, Perverted, Perverting, Perverts, Power, Powerful, Powers, Quote, Quotes, Scott, Sterilize, Sterilize You, Sterilized, Sterilizes, Sterilizing, Take, Take Power From You, Taste, Tasted, Tastes, Tasting, Tender, Tender Is the Night, The, Think, Think For You, You, You Think
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“Either you think — or else others have to think for you, and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you”. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

G.K. Chesterton

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance”. –G.K. Chesterton

William Cowper

March 12, 2010 – 9:40 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Musicians, Poets, Religion
Tagged Caesar, Caesars, Cæsar, Cæsars, Cowper, Cowper Quote, Cowper Quotes, Eagle, Eagles, Flew, Invincibility, Invincible, Knew, Never, Never Flew, Never Knew, None, None As Invincible As They, Posterity, Quote, Quotes, Region, Regions, Regions Caesar Never Knew, Regions Caesar Never Knew Thy Posterity Shall Sway, Shall, Sway, They, Thy, Thy Posterity, Thy Posterity Shall Sway, Where, Where His Eagles Never Flew, Where His Eagles Never Flew None As Invincible As They, William, William Cowper, William Cowper Quote, William Cowper Quotes
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“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

Oscar Wilde

March 12, 2010 – 10:46 am
Posted in Activists, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Ireland, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Because, Death, Die, Dies, Fingal, For, Man, Men, Necessarily, Necessary, Not, O'Flahertie, Oscar, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Quote, Quotes, Thing, Things, True, Truth, Wilde, Willis
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Ryokan

March 11, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Posted in Artists, Authors, Buddhism, Japanese Empire, Philosophers, Poets, Priests
Tagged Enough, 良寛大愚, Fall, Fallen, Fire, Give, Gives, Leaf, Leaves, Make, Make a Fire, Me, Quote, Quotes, Ryōkan, Ryōkan Taigu, Taigu, The, The Winds Give Me Enough Fallen Leaves To Make A Fire, Wind, Winds
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“The winds give me Enough fallen leaves To make a fire”. –Ryokan

Rumi

March 10, 2010 – 3:03 pm
Posted in Authors, Byzantine Empire, Iran, Islam, Lawyers, Ottoman Empire, Poets, Theologians
Tagged Balkhi, Dig, Dig a Pit, Fall, Fall Into, Fell, For, For Others, Into, Jalal ad-Din, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Mowlana, Muhammad, Other, Others, Pit, Quote, Quotes, Rumi, مولانا, Yourself, جلال الدین محمد بلخى, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی
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“If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself”. –Rumi

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

March 10, 2010 – 11:04 am
Posted in Authors, German Empire, Poets, Politicians, Scientists, Theologians
Tagged Best, Best Government, Goethe, Govern, Governing, Government, Governs, Johann, Johann von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ourselves, Quote, Quotes, Teach, Teaches, That, Us, von Goethe, Which, Wolfgang
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“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oliver Goldsmith

March 9, 2010 – 10:17 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Ireland, Physicians, Poets
Tagged Again, Another, Away, Battle, Can, Day, Fight, Fight Another Day, Fights, For, Goldsmith, He, Live, Live to Fight Another Day, May, Never, Oliver, Oliver Goldsmith, Quote, Quotes, Rise, Run, Run Away, Runs, Runs Away, Slain, Slay
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“For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again”. –Oliver Goldsmith

Salvatore Quasimodo

March 9, 2010 – 2:43 pm
Posted in Authors, Italian Republic, Nobel Laureates, Poets, WWII
Tagged Always, Change, Changes, Countries, Country, Force, Forces, Have, Lost, Man, Men, Quasimodo, Quote, Quotes, Regardless, Said, Salvatore, Salvatore Quasimodo, Standard, Standards, War, Whether, Won, Won or Lost
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“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost”. –Salvatore Quasimodo

Charles Olson

March 8, 2010 – 1:15 am
Posted in America, Authors, Performers, Poets, WWII
Tagged Being, Cease, Charles, Charles Olsen, Charles Olson, Everybody, Government, Govt., Nuisance, Olsen, Olson, Quote, Quotes, When, Will
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“When will the government cease being a nuisance to everybody?” –Charles Olson

Alexander Pope

March 7, 2010 – 4:42 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Civil War, Poets
Tagged Alexander, Alexander Pope, Dog, Dogs, Example, Examples, Fidelity, Friend, Friends, Full, Histories, History, More, Pope, Quote, Quotes
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“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends”. –Alexander Pope

Æschylus

March 5, 2010 – 10:43 am
Posted in Ancient Greece, Authors, Historians, Military, Poets
Tagged Aeschylus, Æschylus, Disease, Diseases, Hate, Αἰσχύλος, Learn, Learned, No, Quote, Quotes, Spit, Spit On, Traitor, Traitors, Treachery
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“I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease I spit on more than treachery”. –Æschylus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

March 5, 2010 – 1:25 am
Posted in Abolitionists, America, Authors, Civil War, Editors, Philosophers, Poets, Religion
Tagged Doom, Dooms, Emerson, Himself, Hopeless, Imitator, Mediocrity, Quote, Quotes, Ralph, Ralph Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Waldo
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“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity”. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Norman Mailer

March 4, 2010 – 3:33 pm
Posted in Activists, Actors, America, Authors, Directors, Editors, Journalists, Poets, Producers
Tagged Achieve, Achieved, Equal, Exercise, Exercised, Find, History, Mailer, Man, Men, Misjudgment, Norman, Norman Mailer, Now, Power, Quite, Quote, Quotes, Recognition, Stupid, Stupidity, Throughout, Throughout History, Vice, Woman, Women
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“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Rudyard Kipling

March 4, 2010 – 2:00 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, India, Journalists, Poets, The Jungle Book, WWI
Tagged Book, Break, Break It, Die, Jungle, Jungle Book, Keep, Kipling, Law, Law of the Jungle, Must, Now, Old, Prosper, Quote, Quotes, Rudyard, Rudyard Kipling, Sky, The Jungle Book, True, Wolf
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“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die”. –Rudyard Kipling

Khalil Gibran

March 3, 2010 – 11:50 pm
Posted in Artists, Authors, Ottoman Empire, Poets
Tagged Achieved, Aspire, Aspires, Gibran, Gibran Khalil Gibran, Heart, Heart and Mind, Khalil, Khalil Gibran, Look, Mind, Person, Quote, Quotes, Understand, جبران خليل جبران بن ميکائيل بن سعد
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“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to”. –Khalil Gibran

Walter Scott

March 3, 2010 – 3:56 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Historians, Poets
Tagged Deserve, Deserves, Deserves Praise, Do, Do Evil, Does, Does Good, Evil, Forbear, Forbears, Good, Ivanhoe, Perform, Performs, Power, Praise, Quote, Quotes, Scott, Sir, Sir Walter Scott, Unlimited, Unlimited Power, Walter, Walter Scott
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“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears”. –Walter Scott

John Keats

March 3, 2010 – 11:17 am
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Poets
Tagged Become, Becomes, Ever, Experience, Experienced, Illustrate, Illustrated, John, John Keats, Keats, Life, Nothing, Proverb, Quote, Quotes, Real
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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

Matsuo Basho

March 2, 2010 – 11:02 pm
Posted in Authors, Japanese Empire, Philosophers, Poets
Tagged Ancient, Ancients, Basho, Matsuo, Matsuo Basho, Path, Paths, Quote, Quotes, Seek, Sought, Which, 松尾芭蕉
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“Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought”. –Matsuo Basho

Miguel de Unamuno

March 1, 2010 – 10:41 pm
Posted in Authors, Philosophers, Poets, Spanish Empire
Tagged de Unamuno, Life, Make, Makes, Miguel, Miguel de Unamuno, Miguel Unamuno, People, Person, Personality, Persons, Quote, Quotes, Root, Substance, Suffering, Unamuno
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“Suffering is the substance of life, and the root of personality; for it is only suffering that makes us persons”. –Miguel de Unamuno

Lord Byron

March 1, 2010 – 2:58 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Leaders, Poets, Politicians
Tagged 6th, 6th Baron Byron, Baron, Byron, Celebrity, Doesn't, Doesn't Know, George, George Byron, George Gordon Byron, George Gordon Noel, Glad, Gordon, Known, Lord, Lord Byron, Many, Many Persons, Noel, Persons, Quote, Quotes, Sixth Baron Byron
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“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know”. –Lord Byron

William S. Burroughs

March 1, 2010 – 1:49 pm
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, Painters, Performers, Poets
Tagged Burroughs, Conform, Conformity, Dedicate, Dedicated, Hate, How, Produce, Producing, Quote, Quotes, S, William, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs
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“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity”. –William S. Burroughs

Dante Alighieri

February 26, 2010 – 4:17 pm
Posted in Authors, Christianity, Italy, Philosophers, Poets, Politicians, Roman Catholic Church, Theologians
Tagged Alighieri, Alighieri Quote, Alighieri Quotes, Commedia, Crisis, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri Quote, Dante Alighieri Quotes, Dante Quote, Dante Quotes, Dante's Inferno, Dark, Darkest, Divina, Divina Commedia, Divine Comedy, Il, Il Sommo Poeta, Inferno, Maintain, Moral, Moral Crisis, Neutral, Neutrality, Pit, Pits, Pits of Hell, Poet, Poeta, Quote, Quotes, Reserved, Sommo, Sommo Poeta, Supreme, Supreme Poet, The Supreme Poet, Time, Times
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“The darkest pits of hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”. –Dante Alighieri

Frank Zappa

February 26, 2010 – 12:07 pm
Posted in America, Artists, Composers, Directors, Musicians, Poets, Producers
Tagged Basic, Basic Building Block, Because, Block, Building, Building Block, Claim, Dispute, Frank, Frank Zappa, Hydrogen, More, Plentiful, Quote, Quotes, Scientist, Scientists, Some, Stupidity, Universe, Zappa
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“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”. –Frank Zappa

Henry David Thoreau

February 25, 2010 – 10:21 am
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, Historians, Philosophers, Poets, Scientists
Tagged David, Disobedience, Foundation, Henry, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, Liberty, Must, Obedient, Quote, Quotes, Slaves, Thoreau, True
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. –Henry David Thoreau

Juvenal

February 25, 2010 – 12:12 am
Posted in Authors, Poets, Roman Empire
Tagged Be Of Consequence, Consequence, Dare, Decimus, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Do Things, Imprisonment, Iunius, Iuvenalis, Junius, Juvenal, Juvenalis, Mean, Quote, Quotes, Things, Worthy
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“Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence”. –Juvenal

Kurt Cobain

February 21, 2010 – 9:27 pm
Posted in America, Musicians, Nirvana, Performers, Poets
Tagged Cobain, Hate, Hated, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Love, Loved, Nirvana, Not, Quote, Quotes, Rather
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“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not”. –Kurt Cobain

J.R.R. Tolkien

February 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm
Posted in Authors, British Empire, Lord of the Rings, Military, Poets
Tagged Arrow, Bright Sword, Defend, Glory, J.R.R., J.R.R. Tolkien, JRR, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Love, Quote, Quotes, Sharpness, Swiftness, Sword, Tolkien, Warrior
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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”. –J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles Bukowski

February 20, 2010 – 10:25 am
Posted in America, Authors, German Empire, Poets
Tagged Bukowski, Charles, Charles Bukowski, Human, Human Being, Know, Love, Possible, Quote, Quotes, Well
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“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well”. –Charles Bukowski

Edgar Allan Poe

February 16, 2010 – 11:44 pm
Posted in America, Authors, Editors, Poets
Tagged Allen, Beautiful, Beautiful Woman, Beautiful Women, Beauty, Dead, Death, Died, Dying, Ed Poe, Edgar, Edgar Alan Po, Edgar Alan Poe, Edgar Allan Po, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen, Edgar Allen Po, Edgar Allen Poe, Edgar Poe, Edger, Edger Alan Po, Edger Alan Poe, Edger Alen Po, Edger Alen Poe, Edger Allan Po, Edger Allan Poe, Edger Allen Po, Edger Allen Poe, Most, Poe, Poet, Poetic, Poetical, Poetry, Poets, Quote, Quotes, Topic, Topics, Unquestionable, Unquestionably, Unquestioned, Woman, Women, World, Worlds
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“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe

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