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“Love is a beautiful dream.”

“Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.”

“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”

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"Poems by Frank O'Hara"

— Frank O'Hara

Literature1926–1966

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"Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as lit…"

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy1872–1970

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"When he arrived in Amsterdam at age fifty-one , Locke had published nothing. During what was clearly a transformational period, he used his time in Holland to talk with other independent thinkers who …"

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy1632–1677

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"If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures...and on the radio. Given only the sound of a play, we have to fill in all of the senses, not just the sig…"

— Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy1911–1980

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