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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a sti...more

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...more

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Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...more

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Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth,...more

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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as we...more

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Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

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Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

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And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent t...more

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It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have calle...more

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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continui...more

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Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and genero...more

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The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.