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A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Men Word
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Believe Life Myself People See
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women
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
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself

A man without words is a man without thought.

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