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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
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

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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