Quote by Dorothy Thompson
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he

Inventive man has invented nothing — nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson

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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. – Dorothy Thompson

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The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Seagulls… slim yachts of the element. – Robinson Jeffers

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O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. – John Keats

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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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