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Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
Time is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
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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Confused Government People Tolerance
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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