Famous quotes containing the words mandatory, regular and/or service:
“Off south, the bison multiply so fast
a slaughters mandatory every spring
and every spring the creeks get fat
and Kicking Horse fills up.”
—Richard Hugo (19231982)
“This is the frost coming out of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of winter fumes and indigestions. It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by the opulent, can be enjoyed by all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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