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Invisible Man (1952)
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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Born:
March 1, 1914
Died:
April 16, 1994
(aged 80)
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