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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.


John Muir

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FLANNERY O'CONNOR A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.
PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
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PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be c...
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PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
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PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but.
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DICK MUIR Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage t...
DICK MUIR We are looking at increasing our depth with a few experienced players.
DICK MUIR We obviously didn't finish where we would have liked to in the Currie Cup, but we can take lessons o...
DICK MUIR We have given the guys some time off and will only start working with them from November 7.
DICK MUIR I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that v...
DICK MUIR Our likely team will also not be revealed when we play the Cats the following Wednesday in our final...
DICK MUIR There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it...
DICK MUIR See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey fr...
EDWIN MUIR Oh these deceits are strong almost as life, / Last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth, / And woke...
EDWIN MUIR And without fear the lawless roads
Ran wrong through all the land.
EDWIN MUIR There is a road that turning always / Cuts off the country of Again. / Archers stand there on every ...
EDWIN MUIR We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting c...
EDWIN MUIR Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called ...
JAMIE MUIR Most of our sales are domestic. However, we are trying to expand our export business and have been v...
FRANK MUIR