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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.

John Steinbeck

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight Military
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alone Greatness Lonely
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
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
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Children Men
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK

Reality Romance War
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECK

Brain Weapons
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECK

Feet Horse Men Spiritual

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