The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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