Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- Topic: Possibility, Risk, Travel
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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