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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

John Steinbeck

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
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
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
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

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