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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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