Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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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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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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