"To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#Children Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”
“Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”
“Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”
“All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.”
“The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.”
“It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.”
“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”

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