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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Avoid Been Dangerm Fight Every Except Men Pracfist Reason Sun Under
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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