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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.


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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.



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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.



For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.



How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.



I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.



I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.



To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.



One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.



The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.



In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.





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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.



Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.



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We find life in art and we find art in life!



I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

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