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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

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History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

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Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.

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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Jack London

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London, Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. Macmillan, 1916.

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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

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London, Jack. Quoted in The Bulletin. 2 Dec. 1916.

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Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." Collected Poems. John Lane, 1916, I. 1.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

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I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air.

Alan Seeger

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Seeger, Alan. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." Poems. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.

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If you want work well done, select a busy man.

Elbert Hubbard

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Hubbard, Elbert. The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard. Roycrofters, 1916.

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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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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30. Originally published in A Little Book in C Major, published by John Lane Co., 1916, ch. 2.

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Moore, George. The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story. The Macmillan Company, 1916, ch. 11.

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The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Democracy is not tearing down; it is a building up. It is not denial of the divine right of Kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men. It does not destroy; it fulfills. It is the consummation of all theories of government, to the spirit of which all the nations of the Earth must yield. It is the great constructive course of the ages.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Equal Rights." 4 July 1916, Daniel Webster's home, Marshfield, MA, USA.

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Christ of his gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering.

Robert Graves

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." Over the Brazier. c. 1916.

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 1-6.

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Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.

Roger Casement

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Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Die Tranzendente Funktion [The Transcendent Function]. C. G. Jung Institute, 1957.

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To an open house in the evening
Home shall men come,
To an older place than Eden
And a taller town than Rome.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The House of Christmas." Poems. John Lane Company, 1916.

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What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

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