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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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

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