“you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.”

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Wilderness

1961

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Remember the Alamo!

1958

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A place to come to

1977

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Band of Angels

1977

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The cave

1959

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