Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. - John Keats

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I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

John Keats

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

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A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

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When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

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Elvis Presley

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

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Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics. "

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William James

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

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