"But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”

Mary Mapes Dodge

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“Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.94, Open Road Media
“The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.”
“Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.”
“If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.”
“Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”
“The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.”

Source : Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.
“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
“I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.”

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