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Several Of My Young Acquaintances Are In Their Graves Who Gave Promise Of Making Happy And Useful Citizens And There Is No Question Whatever That Cigarettes Alone Were The Cause Of Their Destruction. No Boy Living Would Commence The Use Of Cigarettes If He Knew What A Useless, Soulless, Worthless Thing They Would Make Of Him.

Men Should Stop Fighting Among Themselves And Start Fighting Insects.

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

The Secret Of Improved Plant Breeding, Apart From Scientific Knowledge, Is Love. While I Was Conducting Experiments To Make Spineless Cacti, I Often Talked To The Plants. . . . "you Have Nothing To Fear," I Would Tell Them. "you Don't Need Your Defensive Thorns. I Will Protect You." Gradually The Useful Plant Of The Desert Emerged In A Thornless Variety.

Let Us Read The Bible Without The Ill-fitting Colored Spectacles Of Theology, Just As We Read Other Books, Using Our Judgment And Reason. . . .