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  • As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

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  • Henry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Henry Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Mamet A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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