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A state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

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The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

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Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

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Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it [grass] withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

John James Ingalls

John James Ingalls
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Born: December 29, 1833
Died: August 16, 1900 (aged 66)
Bio: John James Ingalls was an American politician.

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