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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
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.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness

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