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- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (Attributed)
- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Unto This Last, essay 2 (1862)
- There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
- Henry Beston, Northern Farm
- I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves - Welcome wool sweaters. - B. Cybrill
- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
- Henri Cartier Bresson
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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