Simple, spare life summations have great power to arrest our attention and to set us thinking. These range from the tombstone legend about the little girl who died going west on the pioneer trail -- "She done what she could" -- to longtime Jersey City, N.J., Mayor Frank Hague's boast, "I am the law." The Bible is better, of course, with Jehovah's magisterial "I am who I am" and Satan's still-smoldering "I am legion."
The greatest of these, of course, is a phrase of inexhaustible richness: "I am the good shepherd."
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