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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Maya Angelou
Truth Me Man Unless Has-Been Exactly More Fact Glamorous He Know Knows How Arrived Been His Historical Than Going Africa Where Place Present
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' Maya Angelou
Life You Say OK Brought Take Reduced Just Place Which Whine Low Them Certainly Incidents Bring
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. Muhammad Iqbal
Man Ego Understanding Structure Wrong Concept Demolish May Human Deed Whole Eventually
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it. Nikki Giovanni
Truth Time Good Good Time See Get Now
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? Ogden Nash
You Mind Think Late Simply Maturing Early
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash
Fall Think Tree Unless See Shall Never Perhaps Lovely Billboard Billboards
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid
Happiness Broken Man Happy Hurt Mind Once Worrying Given Up Which Who Chains
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Ovid
Man Money Poor Man Nothing Nowadays Honors Everywhere Lies Counts Friendships Low Poor Fortune Brings
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Government Good Wise Will Evil Men Thoughtlessness Only Make Itself Decay Vices Necessary Necessary Evil
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude Darkness Poet Own Sweet Poetry Cheer Sounds Sings Who
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Spiritual Thoughts World Men Stronger Rule See Great Men Force Material Than Any Who
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. Richard Armour
Politics Me Long Too Has-Been Seems Wrong Instead Concerned Been Years Left Right
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. Robert Frost
Teacher You Kind Kinds Gives Jump Move Behind Just Little Prod Skies Much Shot Teachers Fill Two
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Robert Southey
Time Sympathy Wound Anguish Like Heal Limb Loss Friend May Cannot
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. Rumi
Love Respect Nothing Gifts Invisible Another Testify Lovers Forms To Love
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler
Work Music Man Architecture Every Else Pictures Himself Always Anything Anything Else Whether Literature Portrait
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler
Nature Law First First Law Self-Preservation
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness Life Smile Made Kiss Kind Compliment Charities Minute Soon Look Up Heartfelt Forgotten Little Fraction
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles
Time Age Old Old Age All Things Passage Teach Things
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles
Money Sweet Profit Deception Even
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot
Experience Every Relative Paradox Somehow Absolute Never Beyond Always Itself Escapes Goes Means
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. T. S. Eliot
People Events Nothing Understand Happened Cannot Whom Ever
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. T. S. Eliot
Negative Narrow Nasty
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
Thoughts Words Poetry Burn Breathe
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. Virgil
Tree Bent Twig
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden
Art Food Entertainment Consumed Mass New Mass Media Like Replaced Offers Intended Forgotten Dish Which Popular Media
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