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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk

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