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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."

"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."

"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter."

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
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"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."


"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."


"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."


"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."


"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."


"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."


"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."


"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
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