A Quote by Walt Whitman

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Walt Whitman

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Assassination Battles Blood Even Martyrs Nationality Only Perhaps Really Should Strange

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Walt Whitman
American - Poet
May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into only so many words, because in a song you really only have three, four minutes to have a complete world in this song, so I think it definitely taught me to be concise.

Arlo Parks

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Alphonse de Lamartine

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Neal Stephenson

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

John F. MacArthur

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Max Lerner

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

Lorine Niedecker

It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

Taylor Lautner

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

Ismail Haniyeh

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

Albert Einstein

But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life

Percy Cerutty

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief