“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”
― The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt
― The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt
“I love all waste
and solitary places; where we taste
the pleasure of believing what we see.
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”
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and solitary places; where we taste
the pleasure of believing what we see.
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”
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“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.
(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”
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(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”
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