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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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There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to acco...more

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

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Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

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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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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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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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Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much....more

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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

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Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because fo...more

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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economi...more