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Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

— John D. MacDonald One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)

Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality.

Dress Her in Indigo (1969)

In many ways life is less random than we think.

One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

Statistically it is probably the one city in the world where the most people have been killed in arguments over professional athletes.

One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

Education is something that should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

A Purple Place for Dying (1964)

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Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

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At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Harry Emerson Fosdick On Being a Real Person (1943)

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

Isaac Asimov The Early Asimov Book Two (1972)

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