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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Life and Living
Alfred North Whitehead

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Action
Alfred North Whitehead

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Common Sense
Alfred North Whitehead

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech
Alfred North Whitehead

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Progress
Alfred North Whitehead

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Courage
Alfred North Whitehead

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Cities and City Life
Walt Whitman

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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Flowers
Walt Whitman

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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Frankness
Walt Whitman

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Professions and Professionals
Walt Whitman

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Sympathy
Walt Whitman

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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Books - Reading
Walt Whitman

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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Opposites
Walt Whitman

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Freedom
Walt Whitman

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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Argument
Walt Whitman

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I accept reality and dare not question it.
Reality
Walt Whitman

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
self-esteem
Walt Whitman

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Nature
Walt Whitman

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Loneliness
Walt Whitman

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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
Self-love
Walt Whitman

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Obesity
Walt Whitman

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Death and Dying
Walt Whitman

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O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
Land
Walt Whitman

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Class
Walt Whitman

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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Miracles
Walt Whitman

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun