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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are mor

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs

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alone
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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History
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. – Katharine Hepburn

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. – Ayn Rand

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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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No nice men are good at getting taxis. – Katherine Whitehorn, Observer, 1977

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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun

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To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future – it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. – Bo Bennett

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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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