If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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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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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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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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