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Now Sutter also was disturbed. He loved his land and wanted nothing more out of life than to manage his acres and watch his herds grow. Gold could ruin everything. Sutter went to the mill to see for himself, hoping that the gold was scarce,
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“The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics.”
― World Order
― World Order
“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
“But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.”
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“There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.”
― The Black Cauldron
― The Black Cauldron
“Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.”
― World Order
― World Order
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