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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

John Steinbeck

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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
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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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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

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