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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

John Steinbeck

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

Advice Deep Yourself
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 know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret

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