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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
The only thing our country really recycles well is pain.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
I have 7.5 billion friends on Earth. The problem is just that I haven't met them all yet.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
The only thing worse than a despot is the people willing to brook him.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-tights advocate his entire adult life
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
Don't bring me your title. Bring me your heart.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
All I have is time and genius.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life..
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
There is no such thing as a minor poet.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights-advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard hawks gas been a poet, an essayisr, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Aug 2020
Truth is the ne plus ultra.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
Censorship is analagous to wife-beating.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
Silence in the face of political corruption is treason.

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A graduate od Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
Adulation does not confer worth.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
Dissembling is the abri of those who find being real is impossible.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life,
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Oct 2020
Global could be noble.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
It is never the wrong time to do the right thing.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
All titles, positions, acquisitions are societal cosmetics, borne not of substance, but are inherently fraudulent, empty, worthless.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
A politician makes a calculated decision.

A leader makes a moral one.

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1a graduate of Andover and Columbia College,Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
A politician makes calculated decisions.

A leader makes moral ones.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2020
We need a world that is commensal.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Oct 2020
****/Criminal Trump is crumbling like the Berlin Wall in 1991, the most magnanimous gift of his life.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Oct 2020
I will die for humanity, but I will never **** for my country.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Oct 2020
War. What a grand waste of human life.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Oct 2020
If people understood the locus of their worth, they would not copyright.

They would celebrate their oneness with all others.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Nov 2020
Knowledge if finite, wisdom infinite.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
Ms. Gorman is a brilliant poet.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Nov 2020
All works are autobiographical.

Tod Howard Hawks
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Nov 2020
Lincoln used little to say a lot.

Most use a lot to say nothing.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
Most are familiar with the epigram "Ties that bind."

**** Trump's favorite is "Lies that blind."

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
Most are familiar with the epigram "Ties that bind."

**** Trump's favorite is "Lies that blind."

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
Is it not time for the hearts and souls of humankind, not the aggrandizement of nations and their wanton wars, to determine how the world turns?

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
My epitaph will be:  "I wrote a poem."

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2021
Toward humanity, we all should have at once color-blindness and moral acuity.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Feb 2021
The meaning and import of "power" is often misconstrued.

Most think it means the capacity to subjugate, to oppress, and, at the very least, to rule over others.

What it really means is to empower others, to liberate all.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Mar 2021
I am my own best friend.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jun 2019
In the finite, we are relative. In infinity, we are relatives.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jun 2019
Repentagon

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
Are you shocked to find out that I am human and therefore imperfect, or are you embarrassed to realize that you are the same...?

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
The Second Coming will be the coming to the realization that each of us is sacred and all creations are divine.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
Take the high road. There's less traffic up there.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights activist his entire adult life. He is now working on his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
It is easier to find a publisher than to find your heart.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
To save Earth, you have to planet.

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
"Intrinsic worth" is a redundancy. "Extrinsic worth" is an oxymoron.

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, awriter of aphorism, a novelist,  and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
Beliefs expressed anonymously are cowards's clothes.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is currently writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2019
The problem with some is that they write with their mind, not their spirit.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019
We used to just waste human lives. Now we turn lives into human waste.

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2019
God, it seems, is the only being who realizes that only infinity is reality:  omnipresesence, omniscience, omnipotence.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2019
A paradox is paradoxically not paradoxical.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2019
Truth is my religion.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Sep 2019
I am crazy with clarity.

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TOD HOWARD HAWKS Nov 2019
War has no warranties.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS Nov 2019
THE GOOD NEWS:  Our next World War will be our last.

THE BAD NEWS:  It will last only ten minutes.

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A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
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