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        <title><![CDATA[I think it is basically to let your voice be heard and and get respect...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think it is basically to let your voice be heard and and get respect when it is given. Hope it helps goodluck.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Basically, what Thoreau is saying is that if you speak out and let it be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Basically, what Thoreau is saying is that if you speak out and let it be known what you want, you are more likely to get it.  I think there's no question that this is true.
Think about our own democracy.  The people who speak up and who make their voices heard are the ones who get government policies to help them.  For example, anti-abortion protestors have gotten the government to do so much more for their cause since they have started...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Let every man make known what kind of government would command his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." Meaning of the quote plz.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What this quote is saying is that you should embrace your life even if...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What this quote is saying is that you should embrace your life even if it seems like it isn't such a great life.  As he goes on to say, people who are complainers will make even a paradise seem unhappy.
If I were trying to explain this with examples, I would try to point out how often (it seems) rich people are unsatisfied with their lives.  I would try to find examples of people who were quite happy even though they didn't have a lot of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:56:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well that is a great quote.  Thoreau was an incredible thinking.  Here...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well that is a great quote.  Thoreau was an incredible thinking.  Here is an interesting picture of the guy, by the way.
To better understand the quote, make sure you have a good knowledge of all the terms being used in it.  Most are easy, but a few could use explanation:
mean life: a hard, unpleasant life filled with challenges and obstacles.
meet it:  do not run away from it.
shun: to not look at, to turn away from, to refuse to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:53:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does this quote means by Thoreau: "However mean your life is, meet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does this quote means by Thoreau: "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:48:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree with the previous poster. I would also add that an important...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with the previous poster. I would also add that an important part of Thoreau's philosophy is reflection. He encourages us to withdraw along with him, at least for a short time, and reevaluate what is important in life.
You might be able to use this quotation as an introduction to a very personal essay, one in which you talk about how you find some things in life to be distracting and perhaps difficult to resist (e.g. worrying all the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:45:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer to this sort of depends on what point you're trying to make...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The answer to this sort of depends on what point you're trying to make in your essay or what you've been asked to write about.  If you are just trying to explain that quote or use that quote to talk about what Thoreau is saying, I'd say something like this:
In Walden, one thing Henry David Thoreau is trying to do is convince people to live simply.  He argues that people get too caught up in the things they have and forget about trying to be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can I start my essay with a topic sentence with or about this quote...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How can I start my essay with a topic sentence with or about this quote "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us?" by Thoreau.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:07:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this passage, from the first chapter of "Walden," Thoreau is talking...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this passage, from the first chapter of "Walden," Thoreau is talking about how bad it is when people try to *do* good (especially for others).  Instead of trying to *do* good, we should try to *be* good -- the best we ourselves can be, and never mind worrying about whether that helps others.  If we do that, it will actually turn out to be better than if we consciously try to *do* good.
If you look a bit before that, he talks about how the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:53:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning of Thoreau's quote "There is no odor so bad as that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of Thoreau's quote "There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:31:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Walden]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Civil Disobedience]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the best answer to this question is from Chapter 1:  Economy. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the best answer to this question is from Chapter 1:  Economy.  Here's a fairly length quote that explains a lot of it:
 

A man who has at length found something to do will not need to  get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain  dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period.  Old shoes will  serve a hero longer than they have served his valet -- if a hero  ever has a valet -- bare feet are older than...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:24:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Thoreau's opinion of progress in the section Where I lived, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Thoreau's opinion of progress in the section Where I lived, and What I live for?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:22:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thoreau believes that many people have their priorities in the wrong...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/q-and-a/why-men-live-life-quiet-despreation-70609</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thoreau believes that many people have their priorities in the wrong places; he feels that our lives are cluttered with too many things, "frittered away be details" and that we should "simplify, simplify, simplify!"  Along these lines, because many people's priorities are out of whack, they are unhappy, but in such a way that they aren't even really sure why or how.  So, they are quietly surviving each day, desparately searching for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:33:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do men live a life of "quiet desperation" as stated in "Walden" by...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/q-and-a/why-men-live-life-quiet-despreation-70609</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why do men live a life of "quiet desperation" as stated in "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:19:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau, what is Thoreau's philosophy of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau, what is Thoreau's philosophy of language? How does he view the relationship between civilization and wilderness?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:36:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thoreau's entire essay entitled &quot;Walden&quot; concentrates on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thoreau's entire essay entitled &quot;Walden&quot; concentrates on simplifying life.  Therefore, where he says to &quot;keep your accounts on a thumbnail&quot; he means that people should not owe money to anyone and if they do, then it should be a small, minor amount.  Thoreau makes a few references to being modest and not overspending and this is one of them.  Basically, he wants people to live as he does -- in the simplest way, without...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 6 Dec 2008 18:14:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does &quot;keep your accounts on a thumbnail&quot; mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does &quot;keep your accounts on a thumbnail&quot; mean?]]></description>
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