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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 graphic art are…

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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…
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to… — Unknown Author
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to… — John Dewey
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been… — Alfred Adler
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin
Women do not know all their powers of flirtation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball. — Blake Griffin
Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit… — Humphry Davy
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It… — Augustin Thierry
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity… — Edward Snowden
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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