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Quote by John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of

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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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – 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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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A friend who dies, its something of you who dies. – Gustave Flaubert

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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good. – Steven Wright

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People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1967

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim

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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. – Chris Christie

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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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The importance of human life should be universally respected – and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. – Christopher Monckton

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