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

John Steinbeck

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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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter

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

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

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