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.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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