Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a sti...
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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than whe...
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...
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Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
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Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, p...
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It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race t...
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It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but wh...
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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...
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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.
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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and wha...
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Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think th...
