"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.“

-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."

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

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

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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."

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"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

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"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

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