Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

#1. The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

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#2. The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Fairfield Porter

#3. Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.

Damien Echols

#4. Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

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#5. You're still in love with her. She makes you want to live life. Personally, and this is just me, man, if I ever met a woman who saved me that way, I'd devote some temples to her or something. That's how the Taj Mahal got started, I'm sure.

Karina Halle

#6. Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Huston Smith

#7. A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

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#8. It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

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#9. I am luminous with age.

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#10. Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

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#11. It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.

Haim Shapira

#12. They never die, who have the future in them.

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#13. To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

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#14. Growth is not concerned with itself.

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#15. Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

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#16. Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

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#17. Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

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#18. An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

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#19. The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

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#20. You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

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#21. Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

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#22. These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

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#23. You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'

Rob Gronkowski

#24. Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Alex Kapranos

#25. No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

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#26. Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

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#27. Linear thinking is patriarchal.

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#28. What you do with your time on a daily basis determines how far you will go in life

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

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#30. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

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#31. Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Tariq Ramadan

#32. It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Blaise Pascal