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"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."
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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."
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"We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing."
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"My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood."Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long."
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"But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
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"One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour."
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"This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak-the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."
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"Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on snow-white sheets; it was the benediction of a pristine pedigree, refined through ages of selective breeding and the occasional mercy culling.It was life, and death, and all that spanned between.It was his birthright."
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"A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult."
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"Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for gnomeatic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.Baz is looking at Penny like they've never met."And, Penny goes on, "she defended your father in three duels before he accepted her proposal."That sounds barbaric, I say."It was traditional, Baz says."It was brilliant, Penny says. "I've read the minutes."Where? Baz asks her."We have them in our library at home, she says "My dad loves marriage rites. Any sort of family magic, actually. He and my mother are bound together in five dimensions."
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"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."
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"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
Mind
"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses."
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"Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors."
Art
"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
Art
"In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival."
Land
"Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them."
Entropy
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
Difference
"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
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"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
Equilibrium
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