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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a los

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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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. – John Steinbeck

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck

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Adversity
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen

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Fear

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert

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Fear

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. – Socrates

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Fear

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I know nothing about technology. – Jack Ma

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The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. – Lewis Carroll

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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