It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECKIn the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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