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John Wesley Powell has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Popular Arkansas quotes from across the collection:
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and…
— Maya Angelou
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I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.
— Mike Huckabee
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Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.
— Kris Allen
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A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.
— Mike Huckabee
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The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast.…
— Joe Conason
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
— Pat Buchanan
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
— Molly Ivins
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Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types…
— Mark Pryor
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I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
— Bette Greene
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In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does…
— Blanche Lincoln
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born…
— Richard Dawkins
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