"When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from."

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Source : Owen Wister (2016). “WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Jimmyjohn Boss, Napoleon Shave-Tail, Hank's Woman, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Padre Ignacio and more: Historical Novels, Adventures and Romances, Including the First Cowboy Novel Set in the Wild West”, p.360, e-artnow

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#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Be Kind Quotes

“Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7
“Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.”

Source : Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'
“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press
“Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?”

Source : Arthur Hailey (2014). “The Moneychangers”, p.171, Open Road Media
“We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed”
“A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.”
“You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.”

Source : Song: When You Love Someone, 1997

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