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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most te

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. – Zora Neale Hurston

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I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison

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Now all my teachers are dead except silence. – W.S. Merwin

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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. – Walt Disney

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill

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