"How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?"

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Conrad Aiken

#Men Quotes #Modesty Quotes #Praise Quotes

“We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.”

Source : Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.”
“It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.”
“I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.”
“Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.”
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”
“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.”
“There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.”

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