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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

John Steinbeck

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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 find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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

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