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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

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Morris West
Age: 83 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 9
Novelist
Writer
St Kilda
Victoria
Australia
Morris Langlo West
Michael East
Julian Morris
Corruption
Vices
Institutions
Members
Prone

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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
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