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It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

Bernard DeVoto

The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Reason Refuse Trouble
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Government Race Stupid
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn.
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Believe Food Heart Lifeward
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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Kissing Martini Refrigerator
The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.
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Altogether Campground Coma Pulse Strengthening Weaken
The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
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Airplane Automatism Game Organisation Pilot Player Tennis
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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Dawn False Knowledge
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . .
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Civilization Destiny Life
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.
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Evidence Generosity Life Men
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
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Cocktail Evening Occupation

It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

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It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

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