The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. - Edwin Way Teale

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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

Edwin Way Teale

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Beauty, Funny, Nature, Plus, Web, Wires

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Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Complexity, Greed, Labors, Life, Reduce, Simple

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

Bad, Care, Morally, True

All things seem possible in May.

All Things, May, Possible, Spring, Things

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