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Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo and the happier he
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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.
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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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.
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