The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
BERNARD DEVOTOThe parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.
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The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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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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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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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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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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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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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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The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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