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- They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
- The Book of Joshua 6:21
- To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest.
- Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" 1984
- There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
- Poet Louise Bogan
- When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Promise me that if you become a Christian you'll become a Presbyterian.
- Lord Beaverbrook
- In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
- Proverbs 7:17-18
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