I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.
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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.John Steinbeck
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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
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