"Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.”
“Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.”
“Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.”

Source : "Starting Point With Soledad O'brien", www.cnn.com. February 1, 2012.
“When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.”

Source : Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher
“The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).”
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.”

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