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

John Steinbeck

No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand

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