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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
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What is uttered is finished and done with.
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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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