I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

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There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.

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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life.

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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

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A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

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