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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Book by John Steinbeck · 3 quotes · Men, Believe, Humans

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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction Quotes

“We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.”

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”