“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.” IfsFeelsYearsMayLightPainFallDealsNumbersPayBrainGraceAirBuildingPoetBearsPleaseSafeTaxesSmartYears AgoFlowFortuneThanksDirtyEaseLabourHardshipCustomsCastlesStatesmenTributeLamentAcresCastles In The Air Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.” IfsMenYearsHumansKindSaidFacesTalkingTechnologyAirConditionsRevolutionHundredMen And WomenYears AgoRelationSacredConstantSensesCommunistSoberHuman HistoryParagraphTurning PointsManifestosCommunist Manifesto Author:Grace Lee Boggs
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“For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.” YearsEnoughFeltFourAirExerciseYears AgoMedicineFour YearsStaminaAsthma Author:Venus Williams
“If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.” IfsMenWantYearsDoneScienceMillionsAirEvolutionOceanBirdYears AgoFishesFlightSwimHarvardGermsMammalsReptiles Author:George Wald