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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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I blundered into writing.
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