A Controversialist
I've sometimes wished that Ingersoll were wise
To hold his tongue, nor rail against the skies;
For when he's made a point some pious dunce
Like Bartlett of the _Bulletin_ 'replies.'
I brandish no iconoclastic fist,
Nor enter the debate an atheist;
But when they say there is a God I ask
Why Bartlett, then, is suffered to exist.
Even infidels that logic might resent,
Saying: 'There's no place for his punishment
That's worse than earth.' But humbly I submit
That he would make a hell wherever sent.
poem by Ambrose Bierce
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Knockin’ On Heaven’s Book
On heaven’s book
You go knocking
With hope to enter
A merciful piece,
A paradise' place
Which would avoid
All evil’s faces
Settled as a hook.
Such place doesn’t exist
And it will be vain
To knock at any doors,
Thinking that behind,
Heaven and Hell
Can be separated,
Can be isolated.
Such place doesn’t exist.
As long as there is
Night gloom then day light,
Heaven and Hell
Are from the same material.
The two sides
Of one single whole.
Heaven as Hell
Exist only in us even,
Deep in our heart.
The battle settles there,
And nowhere else.
On heaven’s book
You go knocking
With hope to enter
A peaceful land.
and this land does exist.
Its name is
YOUR SOUL
And it’s made
Of the same material
Than Heaven and Hell:
E.T.E.R.....N.I.T.Y
Note: dedicated to Shashendra Amalshan's poem 'The Devil's hook and the Heaven’s book'
poem by Jeffe Ovie
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No one man is superior to the game.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
quote by Bob Bartlett
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A Tongue No Longer Used
My thoughts crawl to paper
My heart the pen I hold
My tongue is but a rapier
But my ink my very soul
So I hold back my fowl tongue
And write instead my tears
Without a sound air escapes my lungs
For I have learned from years
Though sharp I can be I shall not
No glory in death be had
Instead I shall hold fast my lot
And make my place in life less sad
For when your life is made to kill
Your life cannot be true
For when it's others blood you spill
Their life spills unto you
No longer yourself but an empty shell
A place where you once lived
This place now your living hell
The happiness taken with the shiv.
poem by John Dillenger II
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If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
quote by Bob Bartlett
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On The Platform
When Dr. Bill Bartlett stepped out of the hum
Of Mammon's distracting and wearisome strife
To stand and deliver a lecture on 'Some
Conditions of Intellectual Life,'
I cursed the offender who gave him the hall
To lecture on any conditions at all!
But he rose with a fire divine in his eye,
Haranguing with endless abundance of breath,
Till I slept; and I dreamed of a gibbet reared high,
And Dr. Bill Bartlett was dressing for death.
And I thought in my dream: 'These conditions, no doubt,
Are bad for the life he was talking about.'
So I cried (pray remember this all was a dream):
'Get off of the platform!-it isn't the kind!'
But he fell through the trap, with a jerk at the beam,
And wiggled his toes to unburden his mind.
And, O, so bewitching the thoughts he advanced,
That I clung to his ankles, attentive, entranced!
poem by Ambrose Bierce
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.
quote by Roscoe Bartlett
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I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.
quote by Roscoe Bartlett
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
quote by Dan Bartlett
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I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
quote by Roscoe Bartlett
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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
quote by Dan Bartlett
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
quote by J. Bartlett Brebner
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This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
quote by Steve Bartlett
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
quote by Steve Bartlett
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