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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.Best?
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.Best?
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In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.Best?
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.Best?
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A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.Best?
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.Best?
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I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.Best?
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We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us.Best?
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In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.Best?
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For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word... Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!Best?
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Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.Best?
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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.Best?
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I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.Best?
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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.Best?
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Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.Best?
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Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.Best?
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After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.Best?
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The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.Best?
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