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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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God Man Strange War
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Brief Life Live Short Slave Yourself
What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Enemy Food Man Share Togetherness
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself
Ever step you take is forever.
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Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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Reason Road Travel Understand
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Human Misery Worst
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Carry Fire Inspirational Motivational Reality See Yourself
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Darkness Dreams Fire Myself Wake Up
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time World
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Believe Blood Fools Greedy History Love Repeat Save True
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Abandonment Cry Earth Mom Nature Sound Wind
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself

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