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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. Speech in Des Moines. 1 Feb. 1916, Des Moines Coliseum, Des Moines, IA, USA.

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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The various admirable movements in which I have been engaged have always developed among their members a large lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge. 27 Feb. 1913.

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A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

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This is the End

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Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.

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I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

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Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 4.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 4.

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

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Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech in Colorado. Colorado Live Stock Association meeting. 29 Aug. 1910, Denver, CO, USA.

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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910.

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

Irving Berlin

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin, Irving. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Ziegfield Follies of 1919. Performed by John Steel. 1919, New York City, NY, USA.

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To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Flying Inn." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, edited by Iain T. Benson. Vol. 7, Ignatius Press, 2005, ch. 15. Originally published by John Lane/Methuen, 1914.

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