To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
quote by Thomas More
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
quote by Will Durant
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
quote by Franz Grillparzer
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Keep Me Informed
Keep me informed,
When you think you see dawn.
And you are through with darkness
That supplied subdued restlessness.
And you wish to move on!
Yes...
Keep me informed.
Keep me informed,
When you're hopelessness has gone.
I will be there,
To chip aware what is left of your despair.
And you are prepared to sing songs!
Yes...
Please keep me informed.
Keep me informed,
If you feel you've been wronged.
With me I will help you undo...
Bitterness I have felt too!
And we will build a love...
Recognized and true.
Yes...
That is what we will do.
If you keep me informed.
Just keep me informed,
Take your time...
But don't take that time too long!
I've been searching for you.
You are someone who sees through...
Clouds you wish to lift!
And I am here,
To assist with the lifting of it!
Yes...
Keep me informed.
I know together we belong!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Lonely Person
Every person
Is a lonely person,
But doesn't realize it,
Until it starts to hurt.
The loneliness
Is buried
Under layers
Of activity and commitment.
Take away those
The loneliness is exposed
And it starts to hurt.
The lonely person
Thinks he or she is a special case.
So do the others.
They treat the lonely person like a contagion,
Which the lonely person isn't.
poem by Lonely People Champion
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One Person.
As life goes on you experience many different hardships,
and you start to open your eyes to what really matters.
if someone doesn't appreciate you, then screw them.
if someone doesn't respect you, then don't respect them.
if someone doesn't love you, show them what they're missing.
and more of all if someone doesn't see you for the amazing person you are, then don't stress over it, because they're only one person.
poem by Amanda Currier
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Transformative, Illusive & Subversive Clouds
Clouds are transformative, illusive &subversive
In a school of poetry
Our poetry used to play truant
Our poetry used to play movies and peep theatres
Surely illusive, transformative &subversive a school of poetry
Clouds transformative, illusive &subversive
really used to exist
It's certain clouds are illusive, subversive and transformative
sometime metamorphosed into every possibilities
but no probabilities.
It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
quote by Kathleen Parker
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Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
quote by Placido Domingo
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
quote by Brad Henry
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Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
quote by Melissa Bean
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A person who doesn't know but knows that he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know what he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.
Am I not a person?
Am I not a person?
It would appear.
That im not a person.
Not quite human.
More like a zombie so to say.
Am I not a person?
That is the question.
Im not a person.
Not quite human.
An emotionless wrekage.
Within the walls of brakeage.
Am I not quite a person?
Im not quite humane.
Not quite the person.
I once used to be.
Am I a person?
Or just a big mess.
And a sorry excuse
For a person?
Im not quite a person.
This I do now no.
Im more like a zombie.
Am I not quite a person.
Nope Im not.
I just one sad sorry mess.
A zombie of my formerself.
Just a sad sorry mess.
And a pethetic excuse
For a life.
Amy Kerswell
poem by Amy Louise Kerswell
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Better Half
to Philander
it is not a case of a better half
since he is engaged
in about ten events of his philandering life
it is only
one-tenth of the story
but he's not the
kiss and tell type
his life is a closed book
still unread.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
quote by Robert Fripp
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To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
quote by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
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She Has Skeletons In Her Closet
She doesn't want to admit who she is
Cause she has too many skeletons in her closet
She doesn't know that she's on a self-destructive path
But she doesn't even know it
She wanted to keep the relationship going,
but no one informed her it was over before it started
Cause she's not aware of her skeletons anymore
She thinks ignoring them will make them go away
Boy is she misinformed, but she didn't get the notice
She's gonna have a rude awakening
I wish i could be there to help her through it
But she fucked that one up
She had a clue but then she took a wrong turn
She's going to have a hard life
and no one can help her
(4-3-05)
poem by Brandi Young
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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
quote by John Keegan
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As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
quote by Emmylou Harris
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
quote by Isabel Allende
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Your Needs
Your son informed me about your needs,
Your wife informed me about your needs,
But just one night in the land of your muse!
So, try to learn from those who are ahead of you in this life;
And, earn what you need to sustain your life.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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