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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Alive Faith Keeps Truth World

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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Born Crossed Fingers Old Young

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I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Ancestors Arrested Boston Created Establish Expecting Fully Government Rebelled

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Does Dogs Life Live Longer Love Men Than

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Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Anything Been Better Doing Long Perfect Poems Some Sometimes Talking Thinking Too Us Without

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Appears Bad Before Book Down Good Good Book Help Him His Hurt Nothing Pants Person Populace Who

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Beauty Gives Joy Whatever

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Build Cheaper Customer Demands Doing Educate Fact Find He Him Last Model Needs Out Then Understand Understands Well Year You

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Actions General Impulses Organized Our Preservation Race Ruled Self Serve

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Childhood Dies Kingdom Matters Nobody Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 22nd, 1892

Died: October 19th, 1950

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