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An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
Rose Wilder Lane
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Rose Wilder Lane
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 5
Died: 1968
Died: October 30
Journalist
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De Smet
South Dakota
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I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.
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no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
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I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
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No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
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Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.
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That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
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Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
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The need for Government is the need for force where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
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I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.
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All men are brothers and each man is free.
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The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
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Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
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There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.
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I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
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I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.
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A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.
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