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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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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Goodness Lose Love Right
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
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness

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