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Famous quotes containing the word runs:

“Man ... always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)