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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

John Steinbeck

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
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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Difficult Experience Life Problem
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness

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