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"Slow going. about one in every four essays is well written; the rest read like pet coffee house theory or an outline of a good idea which never came to full being and lacks research.." — Nov 08, 2013 06:09PM
"Slow going. about one in every four essays is well written; the rest read like pet coffee house theory or an outline of a good idea which never came to full being and lacks research.." — Nov 08, 2013 06:09PM
“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.”
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“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
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