"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
They got to live before they can afford to die.
~ John Steinbeck ~
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They got to live before they can afford to die.
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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...
"Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
"It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...
"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,...
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"Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.
"Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
"Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.
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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...
"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...
"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...
"The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.