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"Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap."
"The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down."
"When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks."
"The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there."
"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts."
"If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower."
"From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable."
"The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we."
"In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror."
"No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself."
"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."
"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."
"Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!"
"Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short."
"I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing."
"If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else."
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio."
"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity."
"I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are going to live in this country, they have to be put on a pathway to citizenship that involves them paying a fine, making sure that they are at the back of the line and not cutting in front of people who applied legally to come into the country."
