Navigation By Dead Reckoning

"In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds." -Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, What I Lived For," in Walden, 1854.

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Location: Pays d'en Haut

"It is not down on any map. True places never are." -Herman Melville, 1851.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Quote Of The Day

"History changes when people realize there is an alternative to blind obedience."

-Stephen Kinzer, 2003.

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