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• The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
• Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
• There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
• A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
• He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
• We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that…
• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love…
• It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of…
• The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
• A fallow field is a sin.
• A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:…
• A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over…

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