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My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

Gladys Taber

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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
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Land
Peace
Everyone
World
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There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
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Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
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November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
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Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
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the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
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History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.
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the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.
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Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
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My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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