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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck

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
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
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
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
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
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
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing

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