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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

John Steinbeck

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Change Hide Men
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself

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