Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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