No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
Edward Dahlberg
Related Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the ... SARAH LACY The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER We need to have a sign (on the new High Desert Corridor) that says 'business loop,' so we would get ... JANICE MOORE Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do ... NATHANIEL SMITH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI There so much more that the Coachella Valley can do to help these people, KAREN STEWART The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe... ROBERT MORLEY The real loser is someone who tries nothing and does nothing SOTONYE ANGA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better
than we deserve. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this cou... ATEM ALEU Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere i... HEATHER BROOKE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national... BARBARA JORDAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whet... TONY BLAIR You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea... JAMES MADISON We do what we feel is going to be best for the overall people of Spring Valley, GEORGE DARDEN What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU For obvious reasons we don't want people to know the location, so (the devices) cannot be influenced... DAVID LORD People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now... GARRISON KEILLOR Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor i... HERMANN GOERING Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can tu... TANANARIVE DUE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can b... MARK STRAND Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have be... JULIE ASK A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the s... DOUG LAMALFA A larger reason people are attracted to blue is the whole issue of water and whether or not there's ... LEATRICE EISEMAN Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
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