"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."

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Source : Reader's Digest, July 1972.

Charles Lindbergh

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“It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.”

Source : Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”
“The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.65, World Wisdom, Inc
“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
“Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting”
“Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Joseph McKee (1847). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature”, p.69
“You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.”
“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”
“Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way.”

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