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

John Steinbeck

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

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself

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