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Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996) was an American politician from Texas. She served as a congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
The ignorant think the Self can be known by the intellect, but the illumined know he is beyond the duality of the knower and the known.
proverb
Leisure with dignity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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