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He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.
John Steinbeck
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This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say, and to feel —, "yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."