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

John Steinbeck

There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
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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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
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
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man

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