I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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