In an attempt to conceal their own shortcomings, those with closed minds and lacking the intellectual fortitude to comprehend a significant new idea or vital information - will tragically ridicule, persecute, discredit, or dismiss both a discovery and its presenter, despite a constant and desperate need of understanding by humanity.


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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS
who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS
The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS
"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS
The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS
and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS
next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS
he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS
and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS
"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS
The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES
We plan to continue to grow, so in the long run these are probably delays more than cancellations.
ALAN JR
I can't control what OPEC charges, but we can control our costs. It's going to probably delay some t...
ALAN JR
Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN JR
Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN JR
Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one pl...
JR. MURCHISON
This year's race showed that money, and lots of money, really matters. It was an unprecedented pheno...
ADOLFO JR
But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if w...
ADOLFO JR
I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's...
ADOLFO JR
I would like to serve as mayor of this wonderful city. I think it's far too early to begin talking s...
ADOLFO JR
While we view the acquisition favorably, we are maintaining our market perform investment rating at ...
ALEXANDER JR
We believe Eaton Vance has a well-defined niche and reputation for tax-efficient investing, combined...
ALEXANDER JR
While I would like to see the company start generating profits sooner, I think (flat-rate pricing) i...
ALEXANDER JR
I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.
ALEXANDER JR
Everybody works just a little bit harder. They drive their employees very hard.
ALEXANDER JR
That's a good price for a well-known house like Pilgrim. You could really get that company going aga...
ALEXANDER JR
Poor performance hasn't tarnished the funds' image. It's still the right acquisition for the right b...
ALEXANDER JR
Putting to bed this whole question of Pilgrim's independence, and finally getting that noise behind ...
ALEXANDER JR