Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKAll war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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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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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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