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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…
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We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we…
— William Cronon
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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
— Chang-Rae Lee
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We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to…
— Les Aspin
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth,…
— Hamid Karzai
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Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
— Pope Francis
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The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead…
— H. L. Mencken
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,…
— Virginia Woolf
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or…
— Ann Voskamp
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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We…
— Herbert Hoover
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
— Nancy Travis
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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when…
— Nancy Gibbs
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