Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often … - Murray Kempton

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Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

Murray Kempton

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

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There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

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