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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.

Bernard DeVoto

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
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
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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Mad May Novelists
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
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
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
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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Impact Inheritance May
The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.
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Average Lines Twenties
Art is man determined to die sane.
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Art Determined Men
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
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Empires Internal People United States
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
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate

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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