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Quote by William Faulkner
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. – William Faulkner

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

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