John Sterling
John Sterling
near sharks swimming uncommon
It's not uncommon that sharks are all over the place and we're swimming right near them and we don't even know.
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Doctorows book is possible, ... Im hearing very good advance word on that one. It would be great to see something break through.
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The situation is so complex, and books allow reporters and analysts and participants to go deeper, to provide an edification that's difficult for other media to do.
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This is a sad and tragic day for all of us. This incident increases our resolve to continue their efforts to ultimate success.
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
faith art
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
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Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
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Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
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Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
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Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
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Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.