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We had one Japanese student, a theolog, learning how to go back to Tokyo or Hiroshima and preach to the Nipponese that God loves everybody.

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For years the Chicago redlight district was to go on as a known and recognized business operation.

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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

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The Old Man was thinking of the profit that did come to him from selling the house and lot, but he couldn't have worked the way he did unless he truly enjoyed work for the sake of work itself.

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

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I am Swedish. My father and mother came from Sweden. I wondered if German, Italian, Polish upperclassmen sometimes felt a call of blood like that.

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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My main lecture was titled, The American Vagabond, which I thought sounded more attractive than just plain, Walt Whitman.

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Every other day I drove my two bay horses back and forth along Brooks Street for exercise.

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

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During my four years at Lombard I never knew of a student getting drunk.

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

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Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.

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Sorrow is my own yardwhere the new grassflames as it has flamedoften before but notwith the cold firethat closes round me this year.

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