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

John Steinbeck

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
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.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
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
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
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.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Change Hide Men
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life

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