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Why Do You Think Great Leaders And Great Orations Are Coincident With Wars, Revolutions, And The Founding Or Ending Of Governments And States? Common Interests Then Are So Clear That Speeches Are Effortlessly Drawn, But At Present Neither The Facts Nor The Consequences Are Sufficiently Clear To Make Oratory Legitimate. This Is The Kind Of War That Will Wind On And Make Fools Of Its Partisans And Opponents Both.

Perhaps Passing Through The Gates Of Death Is Like Passing Quietly Through The Gate In A Pasture Fence. On The Other Side, You Keep Walking, Without The Need To Look Back. No Shock, No Drama, Just The Lifting Of A Plank Or Two In A Simple Wooden Gate In A Clearing. Neither Pain, Nor Floods Of Light, Nor Great Voices, But Just The Silent Crossing Of A Meadow.

Quite Possibly There's Nothing As Fine As A Big Freight Train Starting Across Country In Early Summer, Hardesty Thought. That's When You Learn That The Tragedy Of Plants Is That They Have Roots.

The Treasures Of The Earth Were Movement, Courage, Laughter And Love.

No One Ever Said That You Would Live To See The Repercussions Of Everything You Do, Or That You Have Guarantees, Or That You Are Not Obliged To Wander In The Dark, Or That Everything Will Be Proved To You And Neatly Verified Like Something In Science. Nothing Is: At Least Nothing That Is Worthwhile.