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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
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
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
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
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself

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