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If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less… — Henry David Thoreau
Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with… — Gwyneth Paltrow
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing… — Chuck Palahniuk
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy… — Thomas Browne
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable. — Kerry Washington
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself… — Karl Kraus
I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned… — Matthew McConaughey
And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money,… — Terence McKenna
You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord. — Stormie Omartian
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
Women earn less than men because they are women. — David J
The less there is of a phone, the more I like it. — Niels Diffrient
Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're… — Shannon Lee
Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases… — Lois P Frankel
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less. — Lucretius
Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be. — Neil Patrick Harris
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. — Charles Caleb Colton
With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure. — Debby Ryan
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible… — Lynne Truss
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more… — William Labov
In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a… — Unknown Author
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me.… — Roger Daltrey

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