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Topic: Henry David

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Gandhi,  Mark Twain,  Martin Luther King
Favorite author(s):Harriet B. Stowe,  Winslow Homer,  Edgar Allan Poe
Favorite era(s):1800s
Favorite explorer(s):David Livingstone
Favorite great leader(s):Robert Owen,  Otto von Bismarck
Favorite royal(s):Catherina the Great,  Queen Victoria
Favorite movie(s):Dead Poets Society
Favorite political figure(s):Mohandas Gandhi
Favorite quote(s):"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
 
 
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Like Henry David Thoreau who lived and wrote at Walden Pond , or Paul Gauguin who left civilization to follow his muse and paint in Tahiti , we live and play the natural game of golf, a return to golf's grassroots which is pasture golf.
In 1854, Henry David Thoreau wrote about an osprey fishing over Walden Pond in his classic Walden.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Randy also greatly admired Henry David Thoreau and the simple, quiet communion with nature that Thoreau embraced.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

Henry David Thoreau, 1802 CONFERENCE ON CHINESE VEGETARIAN CUISINE The time has come and only one place qualifies: Philadelphia will be the site of the first IPBN Conference on Chinese Vegetarian Cuisine in Year 2001.
John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant

Henry David Thoreau, in his essay, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience", remarks "Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

By 1854 Henry David Thoreau, in Walden , listed Rumford fireplaces along with plaster walls and Venetian blinds among the comforts taken for granted by civilized man.
Henry David Thoreau wrote of having a rock for a paperweight at his cabin by Walden pond.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

By Henry D Thoreau So intimately bound up with my imaginative life is the Henry David Thoreau of Walden , first read when I was fifteen, that it is difficult for me to speak of him with any pretense of objectivity.
Washington, Henry David Thoreau, Aristotle, Emily Dickinson, and Theodore Roosevelt are some of the many timeless voices who offer hope and wisdom to readers of all ages.
Henry David Thoreau Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Henry David Thoreau from the novel Walden "In my wilderness I do not make the laws, Creation made them long ago and if I am to be a part of this fascinating, ever-changing scene, my human emotions must be subservient to rules that were slowly, painfully etched by the evolution of time and the species.
Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate

Henry David Thoreau famous for refusing to pay taxes back in the early nineteenth century--before we had a government school system, and who was a teacher, in defending his refusal to pay taxes to support a particular church in his community said that he did not see why the schoolteacher should be taxed to pay the minister, but not the minister to pay the schoolteacher.
 
 
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