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Bureaucracy
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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
-Robert Frost
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Confusion
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I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.
-Robert Frost, "quoted in Wall Street Journal (New York)", August 5, 1969
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Control
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
-Robert Frost
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Decisions
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"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost, Road Not Taken, The
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Education
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
-Robert Frost
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Life
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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Literary
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep."
-Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Money
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Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
-Robert Frost, The Hardship of Accounting
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Persistence
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It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--
From cooking meals for hungry hired men
And washing dishes after them--from doing
Things over and over that just won't stay done.
By good rights I ought not to have so much
Put on me, but there seems no other way.
Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.
He says the best way out is always through.
And I agree to that, or in so far
As that I can see no way out but through--
Leastways for me--and then they'll be convinced.
http://melange.enigmatic.org/archive/2004-06/bestwayoutisthrough.php
-Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants, 1914
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Plants
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Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
-Robert Frost, Putting in the Seed
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Poetry
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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
-Robert Frost
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words."
-Robert Frost
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Segregation
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
-Robert Frost
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Thought
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-Robert Frost
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Time
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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing Gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
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Books by and about Robert Frost
