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“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”

Men Feels Doe History Sea Lonely Reaching Riding Never Ending

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.”

Needs Feels Hands History Stupid Danger Humour Planets Europe Dues Graves Cute Royal Extinction Royal Family Inbreds Koalas

Author:Nancy Banks-Smith

“We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.”

Thinking World Feels Art Philosophy Names History

Author:Marcel Proust

“I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.”

Feels Kind Art Stills Philosophy History Temporary

Book:Death of a Salesman

Source: Death of a Salesman

“This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.”

Men Want Feels Should Action Opinion History Records Expression Office Chiefs Dread Virtuous Rescue Oblivion Posterity Infamous Depraved

Author:Tacitus

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I feel like this time's gonna be different. I figure one of two things is gonna happen: either I'll get into shape, or I'll just resign myself to paying an $85 a month fat tax.”

World Feels Two Different Happens History Figures Months Shapes Taxes Fats Two Things Gym Best History

Author:Christian Finnegan

“If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.”

Ifs Feels Art Real Philosophy Life Is History Alive Speech Unborn Speechless

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

Ifs Feels Heart History Emotional Integrity Criticism Critics Positivity Envy Criticize Gossip

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

Needs Feels Humans Human Beings Kindness History Atheism Positive Atheism Memorable Agnostic Kindness And Compassion Earth And Nature Goodness And Kindness Kindness To Others Human Kindness

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”

“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”

Feels Reason History Military Hero Heroic Heroism

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”

Feels May Reality Today History Too Much Tomorrow Prove Survival Illusion Yesterday Counting

Author:Luigi Pirandello

“Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”

Feels Firsts America Choices Black History Successful Blessing African American Soil Ancestor Entitled Black History Descendants

Author:Richard Allen