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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh

Looking Everywhere Paper Easy Poetry Putting Surrounds Us Alas

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters? Andrew Young

Day Birthday Election King Congress President Consider Martin Martin Luther Columbus Voters Least Celebration Move Convenience Moving Election Day Alas Luther

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go. Henry Austin Dobson

Time You Say Stays Go Goes Alas

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. Adam Weishaupt

Political Sleepy Deficient Religious Sadly Because Inefficient Leave Domination Ordinary Dose Us Prejudices Sermon Alas

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. Claude Debussy

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci

War Man Courage Humanity Intelligence Beauty Cowardice Nothing Way Foolishness Him Does Reveals Ugliness Enigma Alas

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth Youth Poison Had Been Friends Whispering Alas Tongues

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! Henry David Thoreau

Memory Beauty Does How Human Little Inhabitants Landscape Enhance Alas

I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore. Brian Krzanich

Time First Build Own Back Ran My Own Had Over Around Anymore Used Fun Actually Alas

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. Charles Spurgeon

You Soul Master Complain Out Tune Ask Then Your Alas

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. Eugene Ionesco

Kind Detestable Bourgeois Most Often Alas

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Met Rule Stately England Graves Alas

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. Jack W. Szostak

Success Hope Reading Enjoy Elusive Secrets Those Remain Generally Learn Always Doing Scientists Greatly Enjoy Reading Alas Biographies

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. Jean Rostand

Enemies Doubt Varies Ideal Without Always Same Alas

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time. Jim Nantz

Time You Respect Trust People Father Face Down Believe Everyone Would Some Someone Rather Never He Road Disappointed Perhaps Know Look Always Than Used Down The Road Believed Alas Treated

It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America! John Paul Jones

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. Jon Meacham

Great Reality Comforting Wonderful Complicated Caricatures Corporations Sector Would Would-Be More Fail Terrible Always Private Were Governments Private Sector Than Public Public Sector Alas

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. Judy Collins

Me Writing Sorry Addicted Prose Terribly Because Am Lot Often Stop Anything Heck Hard Fun Ever Alas Started

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. Karen Armstrong

Lose Our Purity Primal Fail Traditions Founders Alas

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