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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."

"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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