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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

John Steinbeck

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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.
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Circus Equality Women
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

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