"Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale."

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Source : Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

Bayard Taylor

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“Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.”
“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis . All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”
“If you stopped yourself every time you said, I have to and changed it to, I get to, it might change your entire experience.”
“Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.”
“Where thereâ€™s a will, thereâ€™s a way.”
“I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.”
“I just remember there was one rule: If you've got faults, we expect you to be working on it. And we are here for you. People would welcome each other then. We don't do that anymore. We don't care.”
“The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.”

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