The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know ther...
L. RON HUBBARD You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social...
L. RON HUBBARD