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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow -…
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can…
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man…
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole…
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes…
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…
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The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within…
— Elliott Chaze
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You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And…
— Joseph Conrad
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes…
— Hyman Minsky
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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
— Vinoba Bhave
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in…
— Rachel
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It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what…
— Unknown Author
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Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare…
— Harold Stassen
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There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within…
— John Muir
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