Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

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"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."

- William Jennings Bryan

Courage

"The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed."

- William Jennings Bryan

Courage

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."

- William Jennings Bryan

Motivation

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

- William Jennings Bryan

Choice

"On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence."

- William Jennings Bryan

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

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"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

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"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

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