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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

That which is not just is not law.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Let's think like a cop or to be a killer. If I want to be killer I will left some kind a evidence which make me different from the others... so was it this there?? Why you close it?? Was it open?? Did you, you open it???....

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.

Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)

Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go.

Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn’t it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?

So friendship is all about ignoring?...Fake smiles?...Lies...Promises which get broken?...

I learned the rules mastered them like a pro. Then break them easily like an artist without any trouble." ― Sage Canny

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.