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...years after the marriage, Tatyana visited her sister and brother-in-law at Tolstoy's estate, where she saw the still unchanneled "creative enthusiasm of a genius" sprouting wildly in all directions. Sometimes it was cabbages and bees; then it was Japanese pigs ("What snouts, what eccentricity of breed!" cried Tolstoy rapturously) -and so it went, taking in fir trees, coffee, chicory, homemade vodka, homemade butter...
...Wall Street breed is extraordinarily precocious...
...ring, big Holstein-Friesian bulls stomped and snorted while cows lowed mournfully in the stalls. Quito was having a cattle show and Ecuador's best of breed were on display. In the thick of the herd, a curly-haired farmer named Galo Plaza Lasso was qualifying entries, arguing with the judges, describing the show over a microphone. He had organized the exposition, and at the moment it interested him more than the fact that three days earlier he had been on top in Ecuador's presidential election...
...squandered a great many centuries disillusioning himself about himself and the world he lives in, stripping away charming idiocies and comforting misconceptions. Now he is so depraved that he will not allow even the inoffensive stickleback to breed in privacy and the peace that only ignorance affords...
...Either we shall employ our strength, power and conscience boldly and righteously in defense of human dignity and freedom or we shall waste those reserves for peace and default to the forces that breed new wars ... If the United States ever again stoops to expedients ... if we cringe from the necessity of meeting issues boldly ... if we are to scamper from crisis to crisis, fixing principles and policies to the change of each day, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at the mercy of any aggressor who might play on our public opinion and decimate our forces at will...