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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECK

Last Listening Myself Rule Story

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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