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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
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"There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor."
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all."
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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