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“Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.”

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Louise Labe, a renowned French poet of the Renaissance period, was born in 1525 and died on April 25, 1566. Her poetry was well-received during her time, known for its unique style and profound emotional expression. more

“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”

Ifs Should I Can Imagine Failing Treated Guarantees Fog Ambiguous Taj Mahal Mahal Sign Sayings

Book:Collected Columns

Source: Collected Columns

“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”

Ifs Speak Lions

Book:Collected Columns

Source: Collected Columns

“I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.”

Knows Honest Dating Cute Relationship

Author:Richard Gere

“Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.”

Normal Findings Faults Critics Rounds Glances Owl Analytics Sly Fault Finding

Author:James Thomas Fields

“Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?”

Land Ocean

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye”

Eye Dark Moon Morrow Crimson Beaks Azure

Book:The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851

Source: The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851

“In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.”

Men Mean Country America Spiritual Opportunity Greatness Development Intellectual Species

Author:Edwin Land

“The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.”

People Firsts Might Individual Democracy Essence Function Absolutes Peculiar

Author:Edwin Land

“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”

Men Real Dream Dies Loses Democracy Greatness Source Submit

Author:Edwin Land

“I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.”

Men Chance Education Situation Students Source Lows Determination Tests University Great Men Grades Yield Take A Chance Traumatic Experiences

Author:Edwin Land

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