"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."
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"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."
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"To be alive at all is to have scars."
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"A man without words is a man without thought."
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"A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river."
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"No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe"
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"Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag."
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"There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I."
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"There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers."
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"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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"For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma."
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."
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"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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"Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!"
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"With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck."
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"For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland."
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"Time is the only critic without ambition."
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