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It seems to me that

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
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Free men cannot start a

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
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After the bare requisites of

After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.
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Lord, how the day passes

Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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One man was so mad

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
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There ain't no sin and

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You

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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Man, unlike any other thing

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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I know this--a man got

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
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