Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. -- Walt Whitman

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And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. -- Walt Whitman

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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. -- Walt Whitman

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. --

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I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. - Brendan Fraser

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. -- Walt Whitman

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This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. -- Walt Whitman

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A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendall Holmes

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman

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