"Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce."

-- Frank Howard Clark

#Believe Quotes #Years Quotes #Noble Quotes

“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”

Source : "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties" by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by William Mudford, (p. 21), 1807.
“There is no way forward without ending the occupation.”
“Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.70, Basic Books
“Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink”
“I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.”
“On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.”
“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”
“I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.”

Source : John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell

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