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" - Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's"You can never do a kindness too soon,for you never know how soon it will betoo late" - Ralph Waldo Emerson"What lie behind us and what lie before us are tiny matters compared to what lie within us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson"I have discovered photography.

" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -- Henry David Thoreau"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

--Ralph Waldo EmersonLook at every path closely and deliberately.

"- Ralph Waldo Emerson"A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never retains its orignial dimensions."- Oliver Wendell Holmes"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these; it might have been.

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Intellectual Honesty

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I submit the following excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Cambridge, MA, usually entitled, "The American Scholar.

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” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no favorite quote spot, so lets do it here. What is your favorite quotes?

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"Ralph Waldo Emerson"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."Mel Brooks"God made man because he loves stories."Elie Wiesel"Earth laughs in flowers."Ralph Waldo Emerson"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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Obama Violates Common Sense Through Irresponsible Spending

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The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to the law of karma as the law of "compensation."  The essence of the law according to Emerson is that in nature and in life "every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and in

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Whats it mean when you're crazy as fuck and you don't give a shit yo?

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Roger Williams, Powhatan, Samuel Adams, Thomas Pain, Abigail Adams, Tecumseh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Woody Guthrie, H.L. Mencken, Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Chavez, Ralph Nader, Abbie Hoffman, Theodore Kaczynski

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your favourite short HORROR stories and poems

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It was an interesting place, Ralph Waldo Emerson visited it, Thoreau.

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