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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
The Grapes of Wrath
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
The Winter of Our Discontent
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
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.
Cannery Row
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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