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Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind


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PERCY JULIAN What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not ...
WALKER PERCY I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns...
PERCY JULIAN The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is...
BENJAMIN PERCY My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first...
BENJAMIN PERCY The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...
WALKER PERCY The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. ...
WALKER PERCY Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
WALKER PERCY If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
PERCY SUTTON To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
WALKER PERCY He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight. - Thomas Percy...
THOMAS PERCY