"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."

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"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."

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"The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Mountains in the distance remind me of you."

Dominic Riccitello, American Author

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"See the golden beach sands and blue skyin a cool breezemy mind flys high"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Nature, Justice, Law, Man

"It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Dark night knows what full moon requires When all your love my heart acquiresCelestial bodies no more faded Life makes sound, silence invaded."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions."

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"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief."

Development, Democracy, Land, Problems

"There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities."

Life, Work, Quality, People

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."

Work, Bed

"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement."

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"Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out."

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Democracy, Mistakes, Past

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