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You can't conserve what you haven't got.

quote by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

quote by Ron Paul
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A Political Lullabyebye

We sway you left and right
And central boom
We care about your doom
Sway you left and right
And central boom
We care about your doom

We’re briberal lateral uni bi
Sing a historical lullabyebye

We preserve conserve reserve we serve
Preserve conserve reserve we serve
Driving along a deadly curve

We critically knit an enclytical web
High tide low tide ebb

We’re red and green blue and white
Bring you bread and flags and human right
Make you sleep in tune so sweet and high
La la la la la la lullabyebye

We’re demo nomo homo cratic
Socio eco natio ethic
Immuno communo anesthetic
Impeached induced lobo lobbies
Cherishing different hobbies

Ding dong clinging to tin tin tin
Prank filled up bottom top chin
Dingily dongily pin pin pin
Pin you bingo bang bang sin

We sway you left and right
And central boom
We care about your doom
Sway you left and right
And central boom
We care about your doom

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

quote by Baba Dioum
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

quote by Robert Service
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I think it best to use caution and start thinking about our future and our children and our children's children, so we need to start now. Our children are already being affected. We need to conserve our natural resources. We need to look after the world and find alternative answers.

quote by Matthew Settle
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When U Think About Me

Talkin:
I knoe u want meeh
I got yo mind paralyzed
Is it the infatuation that keepz u awake at nite?
=chorus=
When you tink about meeh
Do u tink bout us
Fallin in love
Do u wanna get
Wit meeh
Wit meeh
Do you tink about meeh(tell meeh tell meeh)
Do u tink bout us
And makin love
Do u wanna get
Wit meeh
Wit meeh
When u sleep at nite
Does monica star in yo dreamz
Are you tinkin of meeh all da tyme
Or does it mean
Do u fantasize
To yo surprise dere i am
Makin you realize
Deep inside u wanna be mah man
Are you still playin childish gaymez
Or all grown up
Because mah appetite sayz
Too much is not enuf
Im curious
And i dont need to make a fuss
But i tink bout u
Do u tink bout us
(chorus)
Tell meeh
Do you tink bout..
(meeh...)
When you daydream does sweet marie
Stay on yo mind
Or do you find yoself wishin u were here by mah side
Do u wanna have responsible to get meeh a vote
Dont jus hit meeh on da pager or mah cell telefone
When u at da klub
Is dere noone else dat turnz u on
Da way you lookin at meeh
I kan tell u wanna get it on
Im curious
And i wanna feel
Da heat of yo touch
I tink bout u

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

A Child's Story

I.

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
By famous Hanover city;
The river Weser, deep and wide,
Washes its wall on the southern side
A pleasanter spot you never spied;
But when begins my ditty,
Almost five hundred years ago,
To see the townsfolk suffer so
From vermin, was a pity.

II.

Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles.
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.

III.

At last the people in a body
To the town hall came flocking:
"'Tis clear," cried they, "our mayor's a noddy;
And as for our corporation—shocking
To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
For dolts that can't or won't determine
What's best to rid us of our vermin!
You hope, because you're old and obese,
To find in the furry civic robe ease?
Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking
To find the remedy we're lacking,
Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"
At this the Mayor and Corporation
Quaked with a mighty consternation.

IV.

An hour they sat in council;
At length the Mayor broke silence
"For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;

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poem by Robert Browning from Cavalier Tunes (1842)
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In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we are taught.

Senegalese proverbs
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First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

quote by Sherwood Boehlert
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We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

quote by Mark Kennedy
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V. Count Guido Franceschini

Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court,
I feel I can stand somehow, half sit down
Without help, make shift to even speak, you see,
Fortified by the sip of … why, 't is wine,
Velletri,—and not vinegar and gall,
So changed and good the times grow! Thanks, kind Sir!
Oh, but one sip's enough! I want my head
To save my neck, there's work awaits me still.
How cautious and considerate … aie, aie, aie,
Nor your fault, sweet Sir! Come, you take to heart
An ordinary matter. Law is law.
Noblemen were exempt, the vulgar thought,
From racking; but, since law thinks otherwise,
I have been put to the rack: all's over now,
And neither wrist—what men style, out of joint:
If any harm be, 't is the shoulder-blade,
The left one, that seems wrong i' the socket,—Sirs,
Much could not happen, I was quick to faint,
Being past my prime of life, and out of health.
In short, I thank you,—yes, and mean the word.
Needs must the Court be slow to understand
How this quite novel form of taking pain,
This getting tortured merely in the flesh,
Amounts to almost an agreeable change
In my case, me fastidious, plied too much
With opposite treatment, used (forgive the joke)
To the rasp-tooth toying with this brain of mine,
And, in and out my heart, the play o' the probe.
Four years have I been operated on
I' the soul, do you see—its tense or tremulous part—
My self-respect, my care for a good name,
Pride in an old one, love of kindred—just
A mother, brothers, sisters, and the like,
That looked up to my face when days were dim,
And fancied they found light there—no one spot,
Foppishly sensitive, but has paid its pang.
That, and not this you now oblige me with,
That was the Vigil-torment, if you please!
The poor old noble House that drew the rags
O' the Franceschini's once superb array
Close round her, hoped to slink unchallenged by,—
Pluck off these! Turn the drapery inside out
And teach the tittering town how scarlet wears!
Show men the lucklessness, the improvidence
Of the easy-natured Count before this Count,
The father I have some slight feeling for,
Who let the world slide, nor foresaw that friends
Then proud to cap and kiss their patron's shoe,
Would, when the purse he left held spider-webs,
Properly push his child to wall one day!

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poem by Robert Browning from The Ring and the Book
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We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

quote by Silvia Cartwright
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

quote by Karen Duffy
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

quote by Zach Wamp
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Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

quote by Arne Jacobsen
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Never

I wake. Yes, it's a coffin lid.-With effort
I reach my hands out and I call
For help. Yes, I recall the tortures
Of dying.-Yes, this is no dream!-
And without effort, like a spider web
I push aside my casket's rotting wood

And stand. How bright the winter light appears
In the crypt's doorway! Can I doubt it?-
I see the snow. The crypt's without a door.
It's time to head for home. How stunned they'll be!
I know this park, I cannot lose my way.
But oh how different it looks now!

I hurry. Snowdrifts. Frigid boughs
Of dead trees poke deep into the sky,
There are no tracks or sounds. It's still.
The realm of death in an enchanted world.
And here's my home. But what decay!
I'm shocked by this heartbreaking sight.

The village sleeps beneath a snowy blanket,
There is no path in all the boundless steppe.
Yes, there it is: upon a far-off hill
I see the ancient belfry of the church.
A frozen traveler in the whirling snow,
It stands out clear against the cloudless span.

No winter birds or midges dot the snow.
I understand: the earth has long lain chill
And dead. For whom do I conserve
The breath within my chest? To whom did death
Return me? What's my mind
Connected to? And what's its final purpose?

Where shall I go if there is no one to embrace?
And time has lost itself in space?
O, Death, return! And hasten to assume
The fatal burden of this final life.
And you, stiff corpse of earth take flight
And bear my corpse on the eternal path!

poem by Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
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Cocoon For A Skeleton

Clothes: to compose
The furtive, lone
Pillar of bone
To some repose.

To let hands shirk
Utterance behind
A pocket's blind
Deceptive smirk.

To mask, belie
The undue haste
Of breast for breast
Or thigh for thigh.

To screen, conserve
The pose, when death
Half strips the sheath
And leaves the nerve.

To edit, glose
Lyric desire
And slake its fire
In polished prose.

Submitted by Stephen Fryer

poem by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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Word has

Word has its own light
Enlightened your life with it.

Misconceived not and be open
And go out of prison.

Your probity provide you
Privilege and your success
Follow you whole days.

Power of procreation
Comes only when you are
perfect and in perfection.

Word has its own light
Try to conserve it.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Energy

Omnipresent is energy,
The whole of cosmos infinitely,
All pervasive is energy,
Even in a blade of grass subtly.

It has a thumping ware,
In the surrounding air;
It has a smug seat,
Even in the latent heat.

It has a space,
‘Midst the water's pace;
It surely exists,
In electricity's precincts.

It is certainly present,
In chemicals nascent;
It is in abundance,
In light's radiance.

It is in mechanization,
Of to-day's modernization;
It is now the resultant,
Of nucleus' bombardment.

When stored ‘tis potential energy,
When dynamic 'tis kinetic energy;
From one form or the other,
Energy can be transformed thither.

It can neither be created,
Nor can it be eradicated;
Energy has existed always,
In one form or the other ways.

Mankind has harnessed energy,
Depleting Earth of it's bounty;
Unbridled use of this holding,
Is depriving our progeny's belonging.

Let this energy song,
Loudly strike a gong;
For us to conserve energy,
And preserve it with synergy.

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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