“ One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Science and mathematicsRun parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,They never touch it: consider what an explosionWould rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the worldIf any mind for a moment touch truth. ”
- Robinson Jeffers- Copy
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“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. ”
- Gerard de Nerval- Copy
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“ I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ In this white waveI am sinkingin this silencein this white wavein this silenceI believe. ”
- Sarah McLachlan- Copy
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“ The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. ”
- David Duke- Copy
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