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Quote by Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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Poetry
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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Senses
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Discovery
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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. – Edna Ferber

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Discovery

Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings

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Discovery

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. – William M. Evarts

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Discovery

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –moreover, the only one. – E. M. Cioran

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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. – Kitty Kelley

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Happiness

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. – Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985

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I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it. – Stonewall Jackson

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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. – W. Clement Stone

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