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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

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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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
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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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
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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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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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Himself Human Literature Men

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