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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains…
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The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,…
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Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form…
— John Green
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She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead…
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form…
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There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to…
— Stefan Zweig
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When you smile I smile when your sad I sad, everythings going wrong when things wrong but as long as you and…
— Superman
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Whenyou smile I smile when your sad I sad, everythings going wrong when things wrong but as long as you and me…
— Unknown Author
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
— John Wesley Powell
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