"Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?"

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William Dean Howells

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“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”

Source : "The Coming Jobs War". Book by Jim Clifton, 2013.
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

Source : Pale Fire "Commentary" (1962)
“The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection.”
“Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.”
“Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.”

Source : Russell Page (2010). “The Education of a Gardener”, p.45, Random House
“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
“Lawyer â€“ One skilled in the circumvention of the law.”
“You say you're a Christian, cause God made you, you say you're a Muslim cause God made you, you say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!”

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