Carl Rakosi famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
-- Carl Rakosi
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
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The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...
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A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
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