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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so."
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"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
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