"Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri."

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Source : Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks

Francis Parkman

#Morning Quotes #Kansas Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.”

Source : Robert Buettner (2005). “Orphan's Destiny”
“As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”

Source : Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett (2008). “Havemercy”, p.155, Spectra
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”
“If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear.”
“There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.”
“Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.”
“But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.”
“Freedom comes in individual packages.”

Source : Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”

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