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dead-poets-society captains firsts
The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me. David Walton
dead-poets-society transcendentalism wilderness
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...). Henry David Thoreau
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The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. Robin Williams
dead-poets-society cities leaves-of-grass
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Walt Whitman
cities decades economic elite families hometown local people praise society whom
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social. Clive Thompson
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
cities chicago privatization
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
cities circles typical
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
cities lakes tea
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. Bertrand Russell
cities coming requests similar
We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
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We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
leaves-of-grass grass walt
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
leaves-of-grass persons
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
leaves-of-grass democratic nations
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
leaves-of-grass shows smallest
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
leaves-of-grass world sound
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
leaves-of-grass objects
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
leaves-of-grass individual theory
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
leaves-of-grass tamed bits
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
leaves-of-grass lucky born
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.