"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.“

-John Steinbeck

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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

-John Steinbeck

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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

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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."

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"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."

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"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."

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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."

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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."

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