Source: Think Big (1996), p. 199
“If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run”
From Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20page%20Terrorism%20&%20Tyranny.htm
“In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always.”
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 359)
Context: In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.
“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
Source: A Stroke of Midnight
Though this statement and a few other variants of it have been widely attributed to Herman Melville, it is actually a paraphrase of one found in a sermon of Henry Melvill, "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855) :
: There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others—operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
Misattributed
cited in Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 110
Quoted here http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/092108acj.html
