If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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