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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
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
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
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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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 the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men

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