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“A WAR COMES ALWAYS to someone else.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”
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“But even if a person were ignorant of such things, the sight of a moving train held aloft above the great gorge at Niagara by so delicate a contrivance was, in the 1860’s, nothing short of miraculous. The bridge seemed to defy the most fundamental laws of nature. Something so slight just naturally ought to give way beneath anything so heavy. That it did not seemed pure magic.”
― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
“Can you think that whatever made us—would stop trying?”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“At one point an elderly resident Frenchman told him that if he persisted with his plan there would not be trees enough on the Isthmus to make the crosses to put over the graves of his laborers.”
― The Path Between the Seas
― The Path Between the Seas
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