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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

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
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feeling 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
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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help World Yourself
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life

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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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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