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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

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