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" The power of imagination makes us infinite. "

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" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "

" Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. "

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