When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. - John Steinbeck

It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so-called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success…Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox.

"The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.