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• You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you…
• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or…
• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
• Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can…
• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool…
• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on…
• Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about…
• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
• Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
• People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

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