"The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.”
“In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal,”
“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
“Love dies only when growth stops.”
“Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America -all based on the violation of one of our nation's canon laws: the separation of church and state.”
“I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.”
“Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!”
“I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.”

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