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Judah Philip Benjamin quote: "It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human..."

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. Mark Rothko
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Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock. Meriwether Lewis