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One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
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Temperament lies behind mood behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture and finally the power of climate and environment and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.
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The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.
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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.
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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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