"A house built on greed cannot long endure."
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"The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point."
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"This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary."
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"Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air."
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"I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth."
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"How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas."
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"Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime."
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"Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter."
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"One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals."
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"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring"
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"Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses."
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"I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay."
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"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
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"An empty man is full of himself."
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"In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock."
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"Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger."
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"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
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"Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game"
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people."
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