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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

John Steinbeck

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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature 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.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk

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