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• What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)
• All good things are wild, and free. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Things do not change; we change. -- Henry David Thoreau
• In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. -- Henry David Thoreau
• What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy
• The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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• The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...