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George W. Sears
"We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities."
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Source : George W. Sears Nessmuk (2013). “Woodcraft and Camping”, p.12, Courier Corporation
George W. Sears
#Home Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Water Quotes
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“I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.”
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“It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.”
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“The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.”
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“Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.”
Source : Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.246, Hachette UK
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“There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.”
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“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
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“I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.”
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“When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.”
