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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

William Faulkner

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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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