"I sing the body electric."
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"O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent."
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"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you."
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"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
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"I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open."
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"Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young."
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
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"There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die."
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"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books."
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"My words itch at your ears till you understand them"
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"Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams."
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"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
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"Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body."
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"And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other."
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"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
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"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems"
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"Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
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"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
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"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
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