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Many of the folks coming will have a chance to volunteer for a full range of activities, including clean up, Habitat for Humanity or helping people gut their homes.


Ernest Collins

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ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ...
ERNEST RENAN Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his l...
ERNEST RENAN A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH Ideas are the root of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET