"The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there."

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

Charles Dudley Warner

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“"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."”
“Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.66, Oxford University Press
“I have struggled to make a place in this industry”
“There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech." I said Alexnder Naymeer and Bobby Pendragon, Raven Rise, Page 458”
“Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.”

Source : "Histories" by Polybius, book X, ch. 31,
“My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.”
“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...”

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