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"But was that not the task you set me? To defend the helpless against the strong?" "Indeed it was Master Weed. But who is to say who is helpless, and who is strong?" .........."If you seek the power to..."

"A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work."

"Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)"

"Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, but ..."

"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"

"News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)"

"How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?"

"Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly aff..."

"But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary."

"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and ho..."