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• The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
• God doesn't believe in the easy way.
• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
• This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
• We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…
• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race…
• A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,…
• The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
• Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one…
• Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to…
• You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment,…

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