You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
quote by Robert Anton Wilson
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
quote by Sargent Shriver
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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
quote by James Mill
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There is no support for love… as I have told you: to give one’s love, is very precisely and essentially to give as such nothing of what one has, because it is precisely in so far as one does not have it that there is a question of love.
Jacques Lacan in Seminar V, The Formations of the Unconscious (7 May 1958)
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
quote by Frank Herbert
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In The Room Of Quick Desires, A Love Out Of Wedlock Is In The Making
though planned
i enter first using
a friend's name and
then you later
on an invented reason
they do not bother
anyway
attuned to this kind
of compulsion
everyone does it
anyway and with
us on a shallow pretense
they think perhaps
that we are funny
or new to this
adventure if you
call it that way
we begin to know
what bodies are
putting markers
remembering names
and places very
much like ours
we compare it with
some events
those that change
histories of nations
i may exaggerate
what i feel
there was independence
there was the freeing
of all slaves
we were like a very
short film
with a very low budget
that won't hit the
market
precisely that is what
we really want
precisely my own
way of viewing us
like a painting that
i love
without a signature
at the bottom of
the margin.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
quote by Henry Kissinger
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
quote by Emily Dickinson
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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
quote by Tom G. Palmer
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It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
quote by Jock Sturges
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Facebooking
had the chance of meeting Kaye
still at the agriculture department
no promotion yet happy
nothing new really except
this meeting
me too, nothing new, except
this conversation
of who what where when
then we stop
as it is time to go
the office closes at five pm
and we have to find
our way home
it will be dark
and there will be dinner with the family
then we watch tv
after being tired we turn it off
sleep
then dream and then we wake up
early the next morning
back to work
such routine such boredom
yet we still like to live more days
this is life perhaps
nothing new except
the meetings of old friends
then back to work again
i know you are bored reading this
precisely, precisely, now you must feel the same too
at least
in this boring poem
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Life is Struggle
TO WEAR out heart, and nerves, and brain,
And give oneself a world of pain;
Be eager, angry, fierce, and hot,
Imperious, supple—God knows what,
For what’s all one to have or not;
O false, unwise, absurd, and vain!
For ’tis not joy, it is not gain,
It is not in itself a bliss,
Only it is precisely this
That keeps us all alive.
To say we truly feel the pain,
And quite are sinking with the strain;—
Entirely, simply, undeceived,
Believe, and say we ne’er believed
The object, e’en were it achieved,
A thing we e’er had cared to keep;
With heart and soul to hold it cheap,
And then to go and try it again;
O false, unwise, absurd, and vain!
O, ’tis not joy, and ’tis not bliss,
Only it is precisely this
That keeps us still alive.
poem by Arthur Hugh Clough
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We are a Train (Through the Eyes of a Grandmother)
I look down at myself
So small and innocent
So responsible and mature
We are a Train
Each car following
Slowly and steadily
It’s a privilege to discover
How each follows the first
Precisely though by fault
I admire the car in front of me
So trustworthy and comforting
And yet familiar
We are a train
Each car following
As time goes by
poem by Astrid Hardjana
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Nothing Twice
Nothing can ever happen twice.
In consequence, the sorry fact is
that we arrive here improvised
and leave without the chance to practice.
Even if there is no one dumber,
if you're the planet's biggest dunce,
you can't repeat the class in summer:
this course is only offered once.
No day copies yesterday,
no two nights will teach what bliss is
in precisely the same way,
with precisely the same kisses.
One day, perhaps some idle tongue
mentions your name by accident:
I feel as if a rose were flung
into the room, all hue and scent.
The next day, though you're here with me,
I can't help looking at the clock:
A rose? A rose? What could that be?
Is it a flower or a rock?
Why do we treat the fleeting day
with so much needless fear and sorrow?
It's in its nature not to stay:
Today is always gone tomorrow.
With smiles and kisses, we prefer
to seek accord beneath our star,
although we're different (we concur)
just as two drops of water are.
poem by Wislawa Szymborska
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moving
There’s confusion to find things,
to prepare the kitchen, the rooms
when the hallway and lounge,
the garage is standing full of boxes
and we are like nomads,
as if every thing is ready
for the next removal
while we find small treasures,
precisely plan how to arrange our house,
our new life.
poem by Gert Strydom
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
quote by Malcolm Gladwell
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Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
quote by Granville Stanley Hall
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How to expect solutions, precisely from those who are the problem?
quote by Octav Bibere
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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
quote by Tom Robbins
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