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“I've sown all the oats I want to sow.”
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“Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.”
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“History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.”
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“Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...”
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“Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.”
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“There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.”
Source : Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.60, Princeton University Press
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“Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.”
Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books
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“War among men defiles this world.”
